On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 01:08:41PM +0000, OpenBSD wrote:
> I am sure there is a good reason behind this.
>
> >From what I know, you need
> userland access to cryptodev to use hardware accelerated IPSEC VPN, openssl,
> openssh.
> Which services can still use hardware acceleration?
>
> How can I make
> apache or sshd use cryptodev? or does it use cryptodev by default?
> I hope that
> this can be done.
userland access to hw crypto always been slow (mostly because of extra
context switches and copying) and only worth the effort on very few
machines. If you have some decent CPU, it can handle crypto by iself
without problems.
-Otto
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> Marco
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> On 14 Feb, 2011,at 01:44 PM, Ted Unangst
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:49 AM, OpenBSD
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In the current changelog I read that
> > userland
> access to cryptodev has been disabled.
> >
> > So i tried to enable it again
> > by
> setting kern.usercrypto
>
> You can't do that. It was disabled as in, you can't
> enable it
> anymore. Userland crypto is gone...
