always load aesni or load it when cpu supports it
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 21 18:45:03 UTC 2013
In message <20131021184310.GZ56872 at funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote this message on Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 18:32 +0000:
>Also depends upon the crypto mode you are using... If you're using
>CBC encrypt, then you'd need a very fancy accelerator to out perform
>a CPU, but in other modes like XTS or CTR, an accelerator can/will out
>perform the CPU...
Only for very large requests that can amortize the considerable
setup overhead.
Either way, we do *not* want the heuristics to guess this spread out
over every and all modules which need crypto services.
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