ZFS, SHA-256 and crypto accelerators.

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 18 09:50:21 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:02:55PM +1000, mark at legios.org wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm just wondering if I have a crypto device (in my case, it's on a VIA
> CPU), and I select sha256 for the checksum algorithm, is it being
> accelerated by the crypto device?

No, currently not, but this is a very good idea. Would you mind moving
this idea into PR, so I won't forget about it?

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