From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:32:19 +0200 > On 08/28/2011 10:35 PM, David Miller wrote: > >>> The benchmark idea was to test the speed of initialization, encryption >>> and deinitiation, as well as the encryption speed alone. These are the >>> most common use cases of the frameworks (i.e. how they would be used >>> by a cryptographic library). >> Be sure to use splice() with AF_ALG for maximum performance. >> For example, see the test program below. You'll need to replace >> "8192" with whatever the page size is on your cpu. > > As I understand with splice you can encrypt only page aligned data > that span a multiple of pages. This is a very uncommon case. My > benchmark targets the generic case, i.e., the way this interface will > be used in crypto libraries like gnutls. Only the buffer you use must have these properties, you can use whatever lengths you like. -- 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
