Hi Vincent, On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:15:44AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ??? 5 janvier 2013 09:06 CET, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> : > > > 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
Interesting. Are these implementations still in use ? This seems more like early experimentations than definitive releases to me. I don't know if such versions were shipped in any LTS distro, so most likely they'll quickly disappear. Am I wrong ? Regards, Willy
