Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:50:32 -0700 From: "randall ehren" <randall@ucsb.edu> To: "Jason Stone" <freebsd-security@dfmm.org>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: recommended SSL-friendly crypto accelerator Message-ID: <02cf01c42405$39a33450$4102a8c0@home> References: <20040408144322.GA83448@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org><20040413181943.GA55219@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org><6.0.3.0.0.20040414230754.07d7cf18@209.112.4.2><6.0.3.0.0.20040415105459.0477f488@209.112.4.2><20040415180518.GA46433@phobos.osem.com> <20040416153835.K45935@walter>
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| > For $79, it's cheap enough that I could put a whole stack of them in a | > machine. Can FreeBSD take advantage of multiple cards like that? | | another question is, is there logic, either in the driver or in openssl, | to notice if crypto operations are getting backed up waiting for the | crypto card while the main cpu is idle and, in that case, to start doing | the crypto on the main cpu rather than on the crypto card? | | in other words, if the main cpu is actually way faster than the crypto | card, is it possible that the crypto card could actually _slow_ crypto | operations on that system? | | last time I checked, the stats on the cheap soekris cards were way slower | than the output of "openssl speed" run on my system during normal load.... how would one test this out: just run % openssl speed on a system with the card, and then again without the card? where are you referencing your stats from? -randall
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