❦ 5 janvier 2013 09:06 CET, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> : > Did you get a significant performance gain with padlock ? I've not had > the chance to test one yet. I don't even know if it requires an engine > or not. At least with aes-ni, it's included in the native code, you > don't need the engine (and the perf gain is impressive, we achieved > 5 Gbps of AES256 per core).
Hi Willy! It depends how AES-NI is compiled in your OpenSSL. On Ubuntu, AES-NI support is builtin and selected automatically. But if people are using implementations from Intel for older versions of OpenSSL, the engine needs to be selected by hand. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/mailing.openssl.dev/Z8PwfK53C2E/pdkktMcnpAEJ -- panic("Unable to find empty mailbox for aha1542.\n"); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c
