From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Cc: cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:54:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5F2C1B.1040406@gnutls.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110901064319.GB27893@gondor.apana.org.au>
On 09/01/2011 08:43 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 08:26:07AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>>
>> Actually this is the reason of the ecb(cipher-null) comparison. To
>> emulate the case of a hardware offload device. I tried to make that
>> clear in the text, but may not be. If you see AF_ALG performs really bad
>> on that case. It performs better when a software or a padlock
>> implementation of AES is involved (which as you say it is a useless
>> use-case).
> It's meaningless because such devices operate at a rate much
> lower than the figures you give.
Have you actually measured that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-01 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-28 13:17 comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-08-28 20:35 ` David Miller
2011-08-29 7:32 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-08-29 16:09 ` David Miller
2011-08-30 16:33 ` [Cryptodev-linux-devel] " Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 2:15 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 2:15 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 6:26 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 6:43 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 6:43 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 6:54 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos [this message]
2011-09-01 6:56 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 6:56 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 13:39 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 13:39 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 14:14 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 14:14 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 14:56 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 14:59 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 14:59 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 15:06 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 15:08 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 15:08 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 15:32 ` David Miller
2011-09-01 16:19 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
2011-09-01 15:09 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 15:09 ` Phil Sutter
2011-09-01 15:13 ` Herbert Xu
2011-09-01 15:13 ` Herbert Xu
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