-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, In the Debian bugreport #639832 [1], Simon Mackinlay pointed out, that hardware-optimized crypto driver modules aren't loaded automatically at cryptsetup invokation in the boot process (initramfs) in Debian. I verified this. At least for setups with aes support compiled into the kernel, and hardware-optimized aes drivers (aes-x86_64, aesni-intel) built as modules (which is the default for Debian and Ubuntu kernels), the hardware-optimized aes modules aren't loaded at cryptsetup invokation. (Sure, this is tested with aes-encrypted volumes.) I didn't have time to check other setups (e.g. everything built as modules) yet. Is this behaviour intended, or should the kernel select hardware-optimized drivers by default in case they're available (even as modules) and supported by hardware? I'm happy to extend the initramfs scripts to load hardware-optimized modules in case they're available before cryptsetup is invoked. But that an implementation would be ugly and hard to maintain as it needs to be updated for possible kernel crypto driver changes. I would prefer a solution where the kernel crypto api took responsibility for this task. Greetings, jonas [1] http://bugs.debian.org/639832 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOpKOwAAoJEFJi5/9JEEn+NEMP/RYIryt4pw/4ROxHUIZVJEi7 gsPNzLbqCjwQ89uRsbN6BHrwrLeR7/s8xNUU2e4ppFj34069PI//0/KkY5BwnrQt LTxg9yiyWeQc0ajVfxTClq2ZtgL3pcN6FclXKTE+ffjYMxbfBbM5AT1ATAkI4AOy A3KhiT3KzG0sXs0P1o+sP+/JB//QBj6uJcIfMy2lbI0yqhl39rs5U97eueSImwEw 6ZuRVm4MD4zXQVfufAeEAHrXcPJAUd4DQyINQcFv+Ar75bSVtqsyzxsfaJXABOjZ E+o06Zfs0i4rCfH5S08Wsqdcywua69NSnsmYJZlaOgA16uxVqcLvjw9M8DYFnBWT clUuEXIquqQInX/bEgtq6eLgJR/BHSxv4GRJ07fVeQMae5xYPNelnEaiov6ikRs2 jNODQ2EHr3vgXsR4k6VDN/ffXybtUkndulk42vEi+a5u9eNBXYLNe1tYwmX/Ylyx qQmAbKZ0KS3jbBFKU8rUJxlL4BetYpH1+EUDmRAIX99y4SjxdV2/SG5WZHK+scOF cf/durQK13jGu5SGT7cSodmnFo6lgdvFUm1F+fTz4Kou0Jlgl031byG0aX6cETQD oTMyr1z2ToUKD0hI6HMdOXYQLydlnE3U94OwV7ph+CQsvcv02qCrKBTX6zUuZNeL cqYw/o7Yao9lVKmeCNkk =86Vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
