Hei hei,

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 10:30:30PM +0200, Clemens Gruber wrote:
> I am wondering about the performance improvements when using the
> cryptodev openssl engine. There must be some cost for the context
> switches, but this is probably outweighed by the offloading.
> Did you for example run openssl speed aes-128-cbc before and after?
> And on what platform did you try it?

fli4l [1] uses cryptodev and the experience there is, it depends on
the platform. Some platforms benefit a lot, especially for OpenVPN,
others not so much. Depends on what the CPU offers and how fast the
system in general is.

Greets
Alex

[1] http://www.fli4l.de/

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