Atom C2758 - loading aesni(4) reduces performance

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Mon May 25 18:05:53 UTC 2015


Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote this message on Mon, May 25, 2015 at 15:46 +0200:
> ## RW (rwmaillists at googlemail.com):
> 
> > But AFAIK you need the crypto module for AES-NI support in geli.
> > 
> > Is there any way to have both work optimally?
> 
> geli needs crypto(4), but does not use cryptodev(4) - at least, that's what
> I gather from the man page.

Correct...  It is safe to load crypto(4) and aesni(4)...  and
cryptodev(4) isn't needed for geli to use the aesni module...

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