always load aesni or load it when cpu supports it

[John-Mark Gurney]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote this message on Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 18:22 +0000:
> 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 ?

If you're on a slow system (embeded x86 or arm) that has an AES
accelerator, you really want to be using your accelerator than wasting
your cpu cycles on large blockes of AES...

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