Re: HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Liam Farr liamf...@me.com wrote: The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed. type 16 bytes 64 bytes256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc193.60k 681.73k 2049.24k 6516.71k12357.51k aes-256-cbc188.07k 656.00k

HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-18 Thread Liam Farr
Hi, I have a AMD Geode LX800 based system (PC Engines ALIX 2C3) and am trying to use a HIFN 7955 (Soekris VPN1411) crypto card to improve OpenSSL performance (for SFTP and OpenVPN). However after installing the HIFN card I don't seem to get any performance gain, and all the crypto still seems

Re: HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-18 Thread Ryan Corder
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:21:18AM +1300, Liam Farr wrote: | I have a AMD Geode LX800 based system (PC Engines ALIX 2C3) and am trying to | use a HIFN 7955 (Soekris VPN1411) crypto card to improve OpenSSL performance | (for SFTP and OpenVPN). | | However after installing the HIFN card I don't seem

Re: HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 2/18/2010 7:21 AM, Liam Farr wrote: Hi, I thought that the system might be using the built in crypto in the AMD Geode CPU instead of the HIFN and have used config -e -o bsd.new /bsd to disable glxsb (glxsb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2 AMD Geode LX Crypto rev 0x00: RNG AES) in the kernel,

Re: HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
On 2/18/2010 12:47 PM, Ryan Corder wrote: Essentially, on these lower-power devices, the cost of moving the data to and from the crypto card across the PCI bus negates most performance gains you would achieve trying to offload it. Right Where as on servers, these devices only offer a benefit

Re: HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-02-18, Liam Farr liamf...@me.com wrote: I have a AMD Geode LX800 based system (PC Engines ALIX 2C3) and am trying to use a HIFN 7955 (Soekris VPN1411) crypto card to improve OpenSSL performance (for SFTP and OpenVPN). You could compare your current results with those after setting

Re: HIFN 7955 Support in OpenBSD 4.6 on AMD Geode LX800 System

2010-02-18 Thread Liam Farr
Thanks for all the responses, With sysctl kern.usercrypto=0 The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed. type 16 bytes 64 bytes256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 4864.23k 7017.85k 7896.30k 8215.34k 8238.61k aes-256-cbc