Dan Hollis wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Jari Ruusu wrote: > > This is explained in loop-AES' README file. Look for section "Performance > > tuning for 2.4 kernels". > > As to question of how many simultaneous writes, each device backed loop can > > have preallocated number of pages in-flight simultaneously. In-flight > > meaning that a request has been sent to underlying driver (ide or scsi), but > > underlying driver has not yet acknowledged that request as completed. > > any ways to increase loop performance on 2.4.19 / AES-v1.6f ? > device-backed AES128 on duron 1200 I get 24mbyte/sec... You could set "options loop lo_prealloc=200" in your /etc/modules.conf but I doubt it improves performance. 24 Mbyte/sec may well be the maximum your disk can do. How fast is that same disk when used without encryption (and without loop)? Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
