On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:09 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: > Does the crypto(9) framework recognize and use these instructions? > Looks like the Windmere-series Xeons will drop into my system boards; I > gain two cores per CPU at the same time, so I'll go from an 8-way SMP > system to a 12-way one. > > I am considering spending the money to upgrade a couple of servers here > that run geli-encrypted disks, as during heavy I/O they spend a LOT of > their CPU time on the disk encryption. The differences I see in the use > of TrueCrypt on Windows machines that have AES instructions .vs. those > that do not are very significant and I'm curious if this carries over to > FreeBSD. > > Thanks in advance! >
It looks like it does as of 8.2 when the aesni driver was added. -- Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
