PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-consuming part of GHASH,
carry-less multiplication. More information about PCLMULQDQ can be
found at:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/carry-less-multiplication-and-its-usage-for-computing-the-gcm-mode/
Because PCLMULQDQ changes XMM state, its
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 22:42 +0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:42 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> > Hi, Herbert,
> >
> > The dependency to irq_fpu_usable has been merged by linus' tree.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Huang Ying
> > --
* Neil Horman | 2009-09-14 12:30:43 [-0400]:
>Ok, version 2 of the patch, taking comments into account
looks good.
Sebastian
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On Tuesday 15 September 2009 20:12:52 you wrote:
> > However, I think that the best results for hw accel will be obtained if
> > you accelerate the AEAD interface.
>
> If your driver benefits from seeing both the hashing request and the
> cipher request at the same time then by all means go for t
Octavian Purdila wrote:
>
> AFAK, the crypto interface is asynchronous but the hashing interface (as used
> in IPSec) is synchronous.
>
> There are two patches I've recently seen on the list, one for converting to
> async hashing and one for parallel crypto/ipsec which will probably get in
> 2
Dimitrios Siganos wrote:
>
> What I would like to know is:
> 1) does the xfrm/ESP implementation support asynchronous/parallel packet
> operation?
> 2) If yes, does it support it in both directions (tx/rx)?
Yes on both counts.
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On Tuesday 15 September 2009 16:19:27 you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using linux-2.6.28 and we would like to hardware accelerate the
> NETKEY IPsec traffic. We are using strongswan for the upper layers.
>
> I understand that strongswan uses the Linux/NETKEY IPsec implementation,
> which in turn, use
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 13:42 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Hi, Herbert,
>
> The dependency to irq_fpu_usable has been merged by linus' tree.
>
> Best Regards,
> Huang Ying
> -->
> PCLMULQDQ is used to accelerate the most time-con
Hi,
We are using linux-2.6.28 and we would like to hardware accelerate the
NETKEY IPsec traffic. We are using strongswan for the upper layers.
I understand that strongswan uses the Linux/NETKEY IPsec implementation,
which in turn, uses the Linux Scatterlist Crypto API for all its
cryptograph
