I think the people with the relevant skill are willing to fix it, when they're show that what they did (cryptdev support) doesn't provide any benefit.
read: it's being taken care of. On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you get the sense people with the relevant skill were open to a bounty > for implementing the necessary fixes? > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I was at the FreeBSD Vendor Summit last week, and raised the AES-NI >> issue as "important to be solved in the next six months". >> >> The issue and fix are understood, it just needs someone to implement >> it (and then, presumably, backport it to 8.3, so we can release an >> update to 2.1 (2.1.1 or similar). >> >> Jim >> >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Thinker Rix <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > >> > On 2013-11-06 07:53, Thinker Rix wrote: >> >> >> >> as I am planning to buy new hardware for pfSense, I was wondering if it >> >> is >> >> worthy to buy a CPU that supports "AES new instructions", i.e. >> >> hardware-support for AES encyption. >> > >> > >> > As I learned in this thread (big thanks to everybody participating), >> > AES-NI >> > is adding no value to pfSense currently, at all. So currently the only >> > solution is to throw GHz at the problem. >> > >> > Searching myself through the web to learn what CPU speed I would need to >> > achieve my desired 450 MBit/s VPN (or come at least somewhat close to >> > this >> > theoretical max), I found this: >> > >> > http://forums.freenas.org/threads/encryption-performance-benchmarks.12157/ >> > I copied those measurements found there into a spreadsheet so to analyze >> > those values. If anybody is interested in this spreadsheet (.ods), I can >> > send it to him via private mail (I guess binaries are not allowed in the >> > mailing list). Just drop me a message. >> > >> > >> > Regards >> > Thinker Rix >> > _______________________________________________ >> > List mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >> _______________________________________________ >> List mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
