Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:19:40 +0100 From: Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ubsec(4) and AES Message-ID: <20080115181940.GA75386@harmless.hu> In-Reply-To: <478CF8BB.3070601@errno.com> References: <20080115093913.GA72710@harmless.hu> <478CEF78.3020808@errno.com> <20080115174452.GA70243@harmless.hu> <478CF8BB.3070601@errno.com>
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--vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:17:31AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:38:00AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > > =20 > >>Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > >> =20 > >>>Good morning, > >>> > >>>I'd like to ask whether there was any updates, news, anything > >>>about the Broadcom cryptoaccelerators' AES support in the recent > >>>past. ubsec(4)[1] tells at the BUGS section, that it's awaiting > >>>some information from broadcom. It would be nice to have AES > >>>support for these cards, since the hifn(4) ones don't provide > >>>as much performance as the broadcom ones, according to the > >>>utilities in the source tree, google, and the vendors themselves. > >>> > >>>[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dubsec > >>> =20 > >>Broadcom never gave me the ok to add the AES support; will ask again. > >> > >>As to performance I believe hifn 7956 parts were on a par w/ the 5823 b= ut it's been a long time. The main issue isn't the speed of=20 > >>the crypto part but the bus+dma glue. > >> =20 > >And also stability. I've experience system crashing with the soekris vpn= 1401. It was > >kinda strange. Existing things worked (like an opened ssh connect, the b= ox is a gateway), > >but I couldn't even fork() new processes, use apache, open new ssh conne= ctions to the > >box, anything. And the interrupt load was also a bit too high. Anyways, = it's a different > >issue. > > =20 >=20 > Hifn contributed many driver fixes for the 795x parts but some are not ye= t in cvs. However I recently tested a Hifn reference 7956=20 > card w/ HEAD and couldn't make it fail as it used to. I've requested hel= p getting all the hifn changes into the tree but gotten no=20 > responses. It didn't fail. It made the system hang :) For testing proposes, I've unplugged the card for a few days, and now the s= ystem seems to be running without any issues. Question, where did you get the 7956-based card? Soekris' version is not yet ready. Sincerely, Gergely Czuczy mailto: gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu --=20 Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise. --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) owGFVs+LHEUUXhMC0pBDTt7k3TZLZnp79vdOmI1rsm5WIyK7QUzwUN39uruY7qpO VfX0Tk4eBXOQXD3oVSFiQBDEi/cgInjwT/CgV8lJ36vu2SxCcBfmR3XV+/F93/tq Prt8cenClZ+//e7+tUePP3/lyau/xdeqxjmVDythZlINR1E0Gm5vru9sDel/LduN R9nmRryVRtsb4vDR882bWjlUbngyr3EMDk/dal0Kqa5DUghj0U0alw13gsW+W9LW 2kontRqDVKVUePbsxAhlMzTDA5XoVKp8DA8a7TAd1kYqJ+ISg+A9BScNDuBtoWC0 OYC1KNoB4WAUjUfb4/XR/rswjHaiaADHooI7mGUlGmgNxRkHe3CIJsdyDjfv3b15 78MX63svixvtjtd3xlH0P3H3YLIW8fveSzPsAZxt2jvUOoVKG0VtDrql7vVoOYVS ThGcBmGn0BboCsrELwitsCDUHJo6FQ7tABS29EpLrqBIXQgR68bxAXjTaJEmuoLE zGunRZIgVS2cNnYZ9g+OwTZ1rY0jJvx+gwkR0UWphXUhNLHF5OrGyv3RR8RuWVrG xIe+e0jHMWEmB7RCy9It0+NWELuLUqyukIJn2lSCd0JmqJq4LyuEIwetbsoUYgQl E991IWbIxfUR+gopBOe1CIkwKfVspeL9VEohM0UlglZoIdVq2UFt9Eym2ONhoWqS Amo0vhA+R2t8dFGJP0s4Jok2rDyug5535xsnS+qJgvcwWd0Yzm2QBJNrnZfIHKT+ 4QxVSvjy58piOUMbnueXgSycq8erq23bhhnFiG0aapOvJrlcpepCer/xoEEzn6zf 8vh3J8H/LRR0Rq3CGckjZ9CqDg899eJJu3rO0XwdWlmWXlYipyHtCvMv+5bPnEfo iDgpJQX3+ML27uYW1MI4Cy0rkbgU/B3aVZ9mc2dtHeJJ0PQ6iBF5R6kZTFlhCHBC 2ypKC9LahmRhmSmPZ42Ygs4WvfFap1ifEeJeznFjr6WVgLxsMPzPSO0T/KK0GiwZ BfM1J3UtU/V4Sl1J5Jbs3DrkYRCWp4XQcEVPKE6NtDCr1SQYbUSjTpnCcuSpVKmg sOROObVxcCqt8xLhGISGNlOq/qofWjIPXaOi79YWkGilaEIGXfGTQJ9S0wRKTrPb ivmKH3xu7oi20hQwHgS4YrFPr67wcLOSE7SW1dmQ+EUtkoLUxln887M8k8DPoj0n 3VifvvCGEPZ7hZKXojFN7YgdkXaewsgJiCUBrWkEZV7w/jlVSYknQTfakMqM/Lm3 CM9i+ML7OiJus1ioIGckdUZAVOxXqZGs0kye0hT1o8ySOu0lxSB4rxAkLaUdzKkf b0vJzJJ0buvWy/yotyjyV7I/Di+6jAZ9YYmPutWVwkbB8rx9sH/Lj+cZyJUgrqjX TEgeB/5I4BI6mnJ51RikCfQJCiwnQQ05Os+6oAFamA7fcaQJ9oUOdG8JvplcO8cM 6a4Ug3TtKcteQMJKpa+Cs3uhVSLtJrcXKEeF8UrwFgOFndpIB3Rxsgx8fY2qyybP sWPUd8qwCshIE6lnjTtWuu0CTwIfOrBIrsQSIcM1jVKLMeAbg4nypFKV73P33tpb f/FQyTDXDcOw4G5rGAsGjZPfgONuhJbJ/4xlpyelE5HBnA4YFOk8DIJjtmxDl+Mg CM6uyYdN8nAekC+UTo8pvl8OE7/8Bv2GqEqSf1g0QTAcMpgfkLGwFzMwId3nShJ1 ltRDVsso0a8E7pAvJEEFkUI/uXHx0hL/WFn80rly4Z+nS180bX75/rOP7/wx+jt+ /uTHX+48++u1pS8/3f31mx9eT69vv/P19z/9fvHp46/+vPQv =bOqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--
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