From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Ludvig Subject: Re: Asynchronous crypto layer. Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:28:34 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <418261A2.5070302@suse.cz> References: <1099030958.4944.148.camel@uganda> <1099053738.1024.104.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20041029180652.113f0f6e@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> <1099062483.1023.21.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20041029193720.53235ec3@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@oss.sgi.com, cryptoapi@lists.logix.cz Return-path: To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru In-Reply-To: <20041029193720.53235ec3@zanzibar.2ka.mipt.ru> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Evgeniy Polyakov told me that: > On 29 Oct 2004 11:08:03 -0400 jamal wrote: > >> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:06, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: >> >>> I agree that multigigahertz box will beat my HIFN card, but I >>> doubt it can beat 1gghz VIA. >> >> The VIA is an interesting one; but it would still be interesting to >> see comparisons. Actually I should say a good comparison will be >> with a dual opteron >= 2Ghz which i have no doubt will smoke a xeon >> - all in s/ware. > > He-he, dual Opteron? It costs as 5 Via boards :) > > ok, I will follow this plan: I will create simple block device like > cryptoloop, it will be _really_ simple without any kind of > portability and/or stability (I hope it will be one day, at least it > took so for 2.4) and I will measure async vs sync. Then I could give the numbers for dual (and quad-) Opteron as well ;-)) But make sure that your cryptodriver could take advantage of SMP! > Then Michal can measure it's fcrypt driver also. I'll have to port it to acrypto first. But I'll do so :-) Michal Ludvig - -- SUSE Labs mludvig@suse.cz (+420) 296.542.396 http://www.suse.cz Personal homepage http://www.logix.cz/michal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBgmGfDDolCcRbIhgRAvpjAJ4+YPJh3+UTtuBvuaU2lfHaHzhNeQCbBJo9 QGUpOlP/OifPWLmhPpnmayI= =16lO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----