always load aesni or load it when cpu supports it
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 21 18:22:11 UTC 2013
In message <20131021164034.GU56872 at funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>The choice of 32 blocks (512 bytes) was arbitrary, but chosen because
>it is a disk sector size... If you're doing that much AES, on a slower
>machine, you'll probably want to use an accelerator...
I'd say it is both arbitrary and pointless.
Logical "disk-sectors" under both GBDE and GELI can be any size
(think RAID-5 stripe) and consumer harddisks have 4K sectors these days.
Why do you fee a limit is necessary ?
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