Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 15:57:50 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Mina_Gali=C4=87?= <me+freebsd@igalic.co> Cc: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Enabling AESNI by default Message-ID: <CANCZdfogvWx9EzsWcvm2EWuzPYk=JnYawyMHEo9A%2BsbkE0802w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <q5MkIX7Ec_BtKC4dL9hH3qckAaiLI1iNYgU80k1qodEU64kc9LtnPnqcaqZw7TlhJ4106Owq1r4Elxh03m4uKNu5dTbqL2xNAZA6AE3QCrM=@igalic.co> References: <5d56280e-a8dd-b28d-7039-f8fe0bc0cd6f@freebsd.org> <q5MkIX7Ec_BtKC4dL9hH3qckAaiLI1iNYgU80k1qodEU64kc9LtnPnqcaqZw7TlhJ4106Owq1r4Elxh03m4uKNu5dTbqL2xNAZA6AE3QCrM=@igalic.co>
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On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 1:40 PM Mina Galić <me+freebsd@igalic.co> wrote: > On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 20:51, Allan Jude < > allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > We've had the AESNI module for quite a few years now, and it has not > caused any problems. > > > > I am wondering if there are any objections to including it in GENERIC, > so that users get the benefit without having to have the "tribal knowledge" > that 'to accelerate kernel crypto (GELI, ZFS, IPSEC, etc), you need to load > aesni.ko' > > This tribal knowledge is encoded in bsdinstall when you setup encryption > on zfs: > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/zfsboot#n1207 Even so, adding to GENERIC is fine. Warner > > Mina > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >help
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