On 10-Nov-10 15:21, Doug Clements wrote:
I see a number of changes in the 4.8 changelog referencing additions
of AES-NI and AES-GCM. This PDF from Intel extolls the (rather
astounding) virtues for linux:
http://edc.intel.com/Link.aspx?id=3754
Has anyone published any performance numbers for this on OpenBSD
running on fancy new Intel processors? Google searches are coming up
with nothing.
There are a few obvious linux-specific enhancements there, but I'm
hoping the OpenBSD support comes close to the single-thread
performance. Line-rate GigE at 500 byte packets would be pretty
pleasing by itself.
--Doug
Performance figures are the most useless things around. Every situation
is different and thus performance can vary wildly. For me, I can push
almost a Gig, but that is with a high-end system with a tuned kernel,
multiple Gig ports each with TCP offload engines as well as crypto
accelerator cards.
