Will anyone suggest any before and after performance tests that I might do to evaluate this card? Also, which encryption algorithms does the softraid CRYPTO discipline support? I didn't find that information in the man pages. It might be interesting to see if the Broadcom card will enhance encrypted volume disk performance.
I'm thinking of getting a Broadcom PCI-X crypto accelerator card for my
Proliant ML370-G4. (I found one for $20). The number on the chip is
BCM5821A1KTB. The ubsec driver man page seems to suggest that this chip
will accelerate DES, Triple-DES, MD5-HMAC, and SHA1-HMAC operations for
ipsec(4) and crypto(4). Unfortunately, I don't think this particular
chip will accelerate AES-CBC.
- (5.4-amd64) Broadcom BCM95821 Crypto Accelerator Adam Jensen
