always load aesni or load it when cpu supports it
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 21 18:32:15 UTC 2013
In message <20131021182834.GX56872 at funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>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...
First, as I said in my previous email: I have still to see "distant"
crypto accelerator do any good if you have idle CPU, even on a soekris 4801.
If you have a real-life benchmark showing that, I'd like to see it.
Second, if you want a limit, at the very least it should be MAXPHYS.
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