On 12/6/18 4:19 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 04:48:35PM -0700, John Nielsen wrote: >> Is aesni(4) even required if all you want is userland acceleration? >> > No, it is not. Same for rdrand_rng(4), if an application uses hw random > source directly.
To elaborate further, aesni(4) is only useful to accelerate in-kernel crypto use (e.g. IPSec or GELI). The fact that /dev/crypto trys to use it by default is a bug (IMO) that I'm planning on addressing. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
