Hello everyone, I just quick tested 3.3.0 kernel (x86_64) to get idea how serpent-sse2 implementation works on Core2 machine. My dirty testing revealed that key size doesn't have impact on speed. Is such behavior normal ? Test machine: Core2 E6600 (2.40GHz), 3GB RAM, Scientific Linux 6.2 dm-crypt on /dev/loop0, 1.5G image file: /dev/loop0: [0010]:11323 (/dev/shm/test.img) Encrypt (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/test bs=1M) -s 256 -c aes-xts-plain64 : 159 - 162 MB/s -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain64 : 129 - 141 MB/s -s 256 -c serpent-xts-plain64 : 142 - 146 MB/s -s 512 -c serpent-xts-plain64 : 139 - 148 MB/s Decrypt (dd if=/dev/mapper/test of=/dev/null bs=1M) -s 256 -c aes-xts-plain64 : 113 - 114 MB/s -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain64 : 90.1 MB/s -s 256 -c serpent-xts-plain64 : 105.0 MB/s -s 512 -c serpent-xts-plain64 : 105.0 MB/s (perf top shows as expected high usage of: serpent_dec_blk_8way and serpent_enc_blk_8way) Z. -- 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