Speed problems with both system openssl and security/openssl-devel

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:48 PM Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello Brnrd,
>
>    I'm benchmarking new hardware (rather limited one, but still) which
>   supports AES-NI (Celeron J3160).
>
>    I'm comparing simple "openssl speed aes-256-cbc" and "openssl speed -evp
> aes-256-cbc" on FreeBSD 12-ALPHA4 (built by myself with all debug options
> turned off) and Debian Linux 9.5.0 booted from install DVD (without
> installation).
>
>   Simple "openssl speed aes-256-cbc" shows same numbers both in
> single-threaded and multi-threaded mode (for all 4 cores). Linux is
> marginally faster,
> but it is in the margin of measurement error.
>
>  But "openssl speed -evp aes-256-cbc" gives me very disappointing results.
> FreeBSD's openssl is WAY slower than Linux one. It is even slower than
> non-evp mode for small blocks.
>
>  Here are results (As reported by openssl, with fractions dropped):
>
> Lin      18942    20637   21300   57967   58769   58769
> Free     18931    20591   21282   58342   58731   58779
> Lin-evp  97049   151466  183905  194385  197514  197727
> Free-evp  2838    10845   35362   81892  131264  137579
>
>   Linux have openssl 1.1.0f, and  I've tried both system /usr/bin/openssl
> (1.0.2p)
> and /usr/local/bin/openssl from security/openssl-devel port (1.1.0i),
> results are
> virtually the same. I have "ASM" and "SSE2" options enabled in port.
>
>  What happens here? Why does FreeBSD's build of openssl use AES-NI so
> inefficient?
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Lev                          mailto:lev at FreeBSD.org


This is probably not the issue, but aesni is not in the GENERIC kernel.
Are you sure aesni.ko is loaded?
% kldstat | grep aesni
If not found, "kldload aesni" and add aesni_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf
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