svn commit: r359374 - in head: . share/man/man4 share/man/man7 share/man/man9 sys/crypto/aesni sys/crypto/armv8 sys/crypto/blake2 sys/crypto/ccp sys/crypto/via sys/dev/cesa sys/dev/cxgbe sys/dev/cx...

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:08:49PM -0700, Xin Li via svn-src-all wrote:
> On 3/27/20 11:25 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> >   - Drivers no longer register a list of supported algorithms. [...]
> 
> For user-visible interface, it seems like we are essentially treating
> "accelerated software" like AES-NI the same way of plain software.  For
> example, geom_eli would now say:
> 
> GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128
> GEOM_ELI:     Crypto: software
> 
> Instead of:
> 
> GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128
> GEOM_ELI:     Crypto: hardware
> 
> [...] and it's much easier for system administrators if we expose the
> fact that they are using some kind of acceleration than asking them to
> run DTrace etc. to find out.  Personally, I think it's probably better
> to change the notion to either "accelerated" (by either hardware or
> software) and "software"...

+1 for "accelerated" vs. "software".  For most users "accelerated" would
mean AES-NI (dedicated crypto cards are not as common), and since most
modern CPUs have those, not being able to easily distinguish between that
and "pure software" (unaccelerated) mode is rather frustrating.

./danfe