They in his usual style...

I understand, thanks for reply. Expecting better IO results only.

On 2/4/2019 12:00 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Denis <den...@mindall.org> wrote:
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>> Thank you for answers.
>>
>> As I understand you right amd64 kernel supports AES-NI for ipsec,
>> softraid, and LibreSSL only. Right?
> 
> That word "only".... what does it mean... AES-NI isn't used to blink the
> cursor?  Please be careful of what you imply.
> 
>> Just wonder, how to check softraid discipline exactly utilizes AES-NI
>> instruction set on amd64 machine?
> 
> AES-NI is used.  You've been told so.
> 
>> Softraid created bioctl -r 8192 (for test purposes) works relatively
>> slow ~10~12Mb/s on AES-NI enabled machines. Tested for Intel and AMD CPUs.
>>
>> cp command utilizes about 22% of CPU usage while copying.
> 
> So you ignored the cost of doing IO to the disk.
> 
> Can you get to the point about what you believe is going?  I think you are
> grasping at straws.
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