Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:30:54 -0800 From: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com> To: "Jason Stone" <jason@shalott.net>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hardware encryption under freebsd Message-ID: <06fd01c2cef0$32890a70$52557f42@errno.com> References: <20030207130102.N3350-100000@walter>
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> > 4.7-release does not have the new ipsec code. I can't recall if the
> > crypto code got in.
> >
> > [...] In general I see 100% utilization of the crypto h/w under IPsec
> > or user load when machines are connected back-to-back with gigE
> > interfaces.
>
> What tools allow you to examine the utilization or performance of the
> crypto hardware?
I added code to timestamp crypto requests as they travel through the system.
This is enabled/disabled with a sysctl. I then changed the cryptotest
program found in the tools area to use this to collect "profiling" data when
running tests. This, together with statistics collected by each driver, let
me see how the h/w is performing. From certain of the times I can infer
when the system is running at peak. If I correlate this with the system
load I can tell farely well (I believe) whether the crypto h/w is fully
utilized. The results of this work explain, for example, why the FreeBSD
crypto code has diverged from OpenBSD and why it outperforms OpenBSD as much
as 3x in some cases.
I've also logged all the timestamp data and post-processed it to get useful
data. I'm submitting a paper about this work soon.
Sam
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