[Openswan dev] ocf-bench bug & performance :)

[Harald Jenny]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:32:20PM +1000, David McCullough wrote:
> 
> Jivin Harald Jenny lays it down ...
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 06:05:50AM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Harald Jenny wrote:
> > > 
> > > >>[  460.738971] OCF: 100035 requests of 1488 bytes in 49 jiffies (2430.238 Mbps)
> > > >
> > > >Did you use a HW driver or just cryptoapi?
> > > 
> > > Just cryptosoft. No HW driver. (no cryptoapi, but ocf)
> > 
> > As David said, with hardware OCF uses cryptoapi.

Sorry I forgot the out in without, was typing to fast ;-).

> 
> Not exactly,  OCF has it's own HW drivers as well,  it doesn't need to use
> cryptoapi at all.  The software "fallback" driver for OCF is cryptosoft.
> cryptosoft is an OCF driver that is a wrapper for cryptoapi calls rather
> than carry a second set of SW algs in the kernel.  

Which is a good idea

> 
> In this example paul is not using any HW accelerators,  just the
> OCF-to-cryptoapi driver called cryptosoft.

Yes I just meant that.

> 
> Cheers,
> Davidm

Kind regards
Harald

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