On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Tony Sarendal wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:09:37PM +0200, Tony Sarendal wrote: >>> When testing new boxes with Intel E3-1270 cpu I don't see AES on the >> cpu's >>> in dmesg. >>> Does this mean that the aes-ni stuff isn't used on these ? I was a bit >>> curious to see if it had any effect on ipsec performance. >> >> According to >> >> http://ark.intel.com/products/52276/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1270-%288M-Cache- 3_40-GHz%29 >> >> it does support it. So it sounds like a problem with the bios. It would >> be printing along with the other cpuid flags in the cpu part >> of dmesg were it enabled. And if the cpuid says it is not present, >> it is not used. >> > > You are star. It was disabled in bios. > > Cheers. >
Sometimes you even need to flash BIOS to have it. //maxim
