Hello, here some short benchmarks with the new HIFN 795x driver: --------------------------------------------------------- Hardware which I use: net5501-70 with vpn1401 (PCI-Card) (Users with vpn1411 mini-pci-card, please report it if the driver works with this card.) Software which I use: Latest stable kernel 2.6.27.6 from www.kernel.org. Chiper: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, keysize: 256 bits With hifn_795x driver: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (/misc is mounted to the crypted partition) piepmatz:/misc# time dd if=/dev/zero of=xxx.img bs=1024 count=700000 700000+0 Datensätze ein 700000+0 Datensätze aus 716800000 Bytes (717 MB) kopiert, 68,0707 s, 10,5 MB/s real 1m9.206s user 0m0.536s sys 0m7.312s piepmatz:/misc# time cat xxx.img >/dev/null real 1m12.737s user 0m0.080s sys 0m2.596s piepmatz:/misc# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== As referece the software implementation of AES: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- piepmatz:/misc# time dd if=/dev/zero of=xxx.img bs=1024 count=700000 700000+0 Datensätze ein 700000+0 Datensätze aus 716800000 Bytes (717 MB) kopiert, 128,616 s, 5,6 MB/s real 2m8.711s user 0m0.616s sys 0m6.652s piepmatz:/misc# time cat xxx.img >/dev/null real 2m2.761s user 0m0.080s sys 0m2.368s piepmatz:/misc# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the HIFN 7955 crypto engine the throughput is 10,5 MB/s, nearly the double of the software implementation of AES. Therefore the time is nearly the half. Regards Andreas Gerlich -- Andreas Gerlich, University of Ulm, Germany open source project --> http://yaze-ag.de/ (Yet Another Z80 Emulator) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html