GELI encryption - CPU requirements?

[Dan Naumov]

Wow, when I thought things couldn't get any better, people surprise me :)

Volker, could I bug you for another set of Intel Atom results for AES
and Blowfish, bu this time with -multi 4?

Thanks!

- Dan Naumov



On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Michael Jung
<mikej at paymentallianceintl.com> wrote:
> FWIW:
>
> You need to use the "-multi <num cores>" switch for multi-core/multi-processors
>
> #openssl speed aes
> CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2216 (2394.02-MHz 686-class CPU)
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>  cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
> 7.0-RELEASE
>
> type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
> aes-128 cbc      51067.07k    51552.36k    52142.46k    52158.35k    52302.93k
> aes-192 cbc      44284.34k    45152.29k    45648.03k    45653.66k    45784.30k
> aes-256 cbc      39358.18k    39717.28k    40087.25k    40117.40k    40196.85k
>
> Same machine with multi switch
>
> #openssl speed aes -multi 4
> aes-128 cbc     204173.66k   205888.69k   208489.35k   208569.53k   209142.85k
> aes-192 cbc     176980.36k   180404.81k   182537.84k   182469.91k   183064.72k
> aes-256 cbc     157313.97k   158619.06k   160317.78k   160399.19k   160746.01k
>
> --mikej
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-geom at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-geom at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dan Naumov
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:41 PM
> To: freebsd-geom at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Re: GELI encryption - CPU requirements?
>
> Wow, so on a dual core Atom, I would essentially be bottlenecked by my
> CPU at 18 MB/s throughput? I guess that puts GELI encryption
> completely out of the question and I need to look into some other
> solution :(
>
>
> - Dan Naumov
>
>
>
>> For reference, here're the values taken on a dual core Atom:
>>
>> type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192
>> bytes
>> aes-128 cbc      17947.16k    18502.91k    18703.91k    18271.91k
>> 18955.39k
>>
>> aes-192 cbc      16404.93k    15966.46k    16615.41k    16115.26k
>> 16466.56k
>>
>> aes-256 cbc      13711.70k    14016.79k    14342.35k    14109.98k
>> 14738.16k
>>
>>
>> FreeBSD dardanos 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #10 r192673: Sun May 24
>> 10:22:05 CEST 2009
>>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  330   @ 1.60GHz (1618.44-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x106c2  Stepping = 2
>>
>> Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>>  Features2=0x40e31d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,<b22>>
>>  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
>>  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
>>  Cores per package: 2
>>  Logical CPUs per core: 2
>> real memory  = 2137391104 (2038 MB)
>> avail memory = 2077528064 (1981 MB)
>> ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  D945GLF2>
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>>  cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
>>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>>  cpu3 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  3
>> ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
>> ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
>> kbd1 at kbdmux0
>> cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
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