Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-11-07 Thread Alexander Bochmann
Hi, ...on Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 03:06:05PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > While a single core of the T1000 is quite slow, this just seems too slow, > making this setup unusable. openssl speed shows 10 MB/s for AES-128-CBC and 7 > MB/s for AES-256-CBC on a single core. So a single core is de

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
> Uhm, but the dd command wasn't :-) (the guest's root disk is sd2, not sd0...) > > Now our numbers align much better: > > # dd if=/dev/rsd2c of=/dev/null bs=10m count=50 > 50+0 records in > 50+0 records out > 524288000 bytes transferred in 131.796 secs (3978008 bytes/sec) Ah, thanks. I was just a

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 07:53:06PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > Are you sure that LDOM was indeed using softraid crypto? > > Yes. Uhm, but the dd command wasn't :-) (the guest's root disk is sd2, not sd0...) Now our numbers align much better: # dd if=/dev/rsd2c of=/dev/null bs=10m count=50

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 07:39:29PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > > I have the 1GHz version with 4 cores (32 threads). > > Ok, so same per-core speed, so single-threaded performance should be the same. > (Btw, you have 8 cores, not 4. 8 cores @ 4 threads each.) > > > Otherwise it's probably s

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
> I have the 1GHz version with 4 cores (32 threads). Ok, so same per-core speed, so single-threaded performance should be the same. (Btw, you have 8 cores, not 4. 8 cores @ 4 threads each.) > Otherwise it's probably similar to yours. > It's running 6.0 at the moment, yes. Some guests are running

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 06:57:00PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > Oh, wow, these are *much* better than what I get. Which CPU do you have? I > have 6x 1 GHz (meaning 24 threads). Are you running 6.0? > > Thank you for these numbers, they make me much more hopeful about this > machine. I hav

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 29.10.2016 um 18:34 schrieb Stefan Sperling : > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 06:08:37PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: >> Hm, my main problem seems to be that whenever I decrypt something from the >> disk, all other 23 cores seem to get stalled. >> >> So, would you recommend doing the following th

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 06:08:37PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > Hm, my main problem seems to be that whenever I decrypt something from the > disk, all other 23 cores seem to get stalled. > > So, would you recommend doing the following then: > > * Have a partition for the main system on a so

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Hi, > I run a T1000 which is segregated into a couple of LDOM guests (about 10). > Some of the guests use softraid crypto inside. The host does not. Yeah, I was planning on using LDOMs as well. However, since I wanted to put this into a datacenter (for a cheap price, so it not being the most curr

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 05:12:51PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > Another thing I noticed: > > When running dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=65536, my SSH connection gets extremely > laggy. If I open 4 more in parallel, all go down to KB/s of writes, and SSH > becomes unusable. Now unusable as in thi

Re: softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Another thing I noticed: When running dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=65536, my SSH connection gets extremely laggy. If I open 4 more in parallel, all go down to KB/s of writes, and SSH becomes unusable. Now unusable as in things need forever to start. Unusable as in I press a key and it takes forever t

softraid crypto performance on Sun Fire T1000

2016-10-29 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Hi! I just installed OpenBSD 6.0 on my Sun Fire T1000 (with 2 SAS HDs in a hardware RAID 1 that I set up from OpenBoot). However, I only get read rates of less than 2 MB/s from sd1a (the softraid), but reads from sd0d (the underlying partition of the softraid) get magnitudes more. While a single