On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:08:49PM -0700, Xin Li via svn-src-all wrote: > On 3/27/20 11:25 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > - Drivers no longer register a list of supported algorithms. [...] > > For user-visible interface, it seems like we are essentially treating > "accelerated software" like AES-NI the same way of plain software. For > example, geom_eli would now say: > > GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128 > GEOM_ELI: Crypto: software > > Instead of: > > GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128 > GEOM_ELI: Crypto: hardware > > [...] and it's much easier for system administrators if we expose the > fact that they are using some kind of acceleration than asking them to > run DTrace etc. to find out. Personally, I think it's probably better > to change the notion to either "accelerated" (by either hardware or > software) and "software"...
+1 for "accelerated" vs. "software". For most users "accelerated" would mean AES-NI (dedicated crypto cards are not as common), and since most modern CPUs have those, not being able to easily distinguish between that and "pure software" (unaccelerated) mode is rather frustrating. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
