Atom C2758 - loading aesni(4) reduces performance

[John-Mark Gurney]

Kevin Day wrote this message on Sun, May 24, 2015 at 23:15 -0500:
> > On May 24, 2015, at 5:44 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > If you have cryptodev loaded, this is to be expected as OpenSSL will
> > use /dev/crypto instead of the AES-NI instructions..  Just don't load
> > cryptodev and you'll be fine..
> 
> So to make sure I???m understanding??? openssl has native AES-NI support, and it also can use /dev/crypto. It???s preferring /dev/crypto, but /dev/crypto has much higher overhead?

Correct...  At least OpenSSL 1.0.1 that started shipping w/ 10.0 has
native AES-NI support... Pre-10.0 doesn't have it...

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