On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you turn on cryptodevallowsoft and run openssl speed -evp > aes-128-cbc, you can watch the crypto thread in the kernel soaking up > cpu. In order for the thread to be running, you're definitely context > switching to it.
Oops, yeah, Marco prompted me to look at crypto.c, and I now see even the soft crypto work is dispatched to the worker queue. (I'd previously looked at ip_esp.c and cryptosoft.c, but embarrassingly not yet the code in between; I mistakenly assumed the crypto drivers were responsible for any asynchronous behavior between crypto_dispatch and the callback invocation. :X) Sorry about that!
