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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Brent D. Norris" <brent@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:12:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010612161237.C33@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106111918550.8612-100000@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106111918550.8612-100000@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu>; from brent@biglinux.tccw.wku.edu on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:24:11PM -0500

Hi!

> I just had one of the "3com Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC with 3XP processor"
> float accross my desk, I was wondering how much the linux kernel uses the
> 3xp processor for its encryption offloading and such.  According to the
> hype it does DES without using the CPU, does linux take advantage of that?

Doing DES is uninteresting these days...

That feature is useless --- everything but IPsec does encryption at
application layer where NIC can not help.
								Pavel
-- 
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-13  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-12  0:24 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor Brent D. Norris
2001-06-12  0:29 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-12  0:43   ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-12  1:18     ` Kip Macy
2001-06-12 16:24       ` Alan Cox
2001-06-12 16:12 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-06-13 10:30   ` James Sutherland
2001-06-14 19:13     ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-14 21:13       ` Martin Moerman
2001-06-14 21:18         ` nick
2001-06-14 21:26           ` Kip Macy
2001-06-14 21:32             ` nick
2001-06-14 21:37               ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:40                 ` nick
2001-06-14 21:41                   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-15 15:12                     ` Pete Wyckoff
2001-06-15 15:37                       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-15 15:52                         ` Pekka Pietikainen
2001-06-16  9:12                           ` Martin Moerman
2001-06-18 14:43                         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-25 15:42                         ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-14 21:40                 ` Kip Macy
2001-06-14 21:45                   ` David S. Miller
2001-06-14 21:48                     ` Kip Macy
2001-06-14 21:51                       ` David S. Miller
2001-06-25 15:45                     ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-14 21:37               ` Kip Macy
2001-06-15  2:50                 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-06-15  2:47               ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-06-15  2:51                 ` nick
2001-06-15  4:01                   ` [OT] " Brent D. Norris
2001-06-15 14:45                   ` Alan Cox
2001-06-15 14:59                     ` Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-06-17 16:35                       ` Pavel Machek
2001-06-16  9:04               ` Martin Moerman
2001-06-12 16:27 ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-12  2:27 Brent D. Norris

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