[Voyage-linux] geode-aes not being used by OpenSSL?

[Hans Johnson]

Alas, I also have that loaded.  Currently loaded (related) modules are:

ocf
cryptodev
cryptosoft
geode_aes

Interestingly, though, lsmod claims that ocf is used by cryptosoft and
cryptodev, but does not indicate geode_aes.

I'm still hacking at this.  I'm going to try building kernel 2.6.29 and see
if that helps out.  If I can get a working .deb for the ALIX, I'd be happy
to contribute it back to the project.

thanks for all your hard work!

Regards,

Hans Johnson

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>
> Try "modprobe cryptosoft" as well, it makes the difference.
>
> - Punky
>
>
> Hans Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm just attempting to get the geode-aes up and running on my ALIX, and am
>> running into some issues.
>>
>> I have the cryptodev modules loaded, along with ocf, geode_aes, and
>> cryptosoft.
>>
>> I can verfy that the geode_aes is loaded, as if I run the cryptotest
>> program from the OCF folks, it will do 309mbps of AES-128 with the geode_aes
>> module loaded, and about 40mbps without.
>>
>> I also have the ocf versions of openssl and libssl (0.9.8g-15ocf) from the
>> voyage archives installed, and get no errors when I run
>>
>> openssl speed -engine cryptodev -evp aes-128-cbc
>>
>> And, in fact, openssl seems to report significantly lower performance when
>> geode_aes is enabled, compared to when it is not, which doesn't make much
>> sense to me.
>>
>> Also, I tried sending 100MB of /dev/zero through an ssh link back to my
>> main server, and was averaging only 3.9MB/s, which is about what you would
>> expect without the hardware crypto.  (The command here is:
>>
>> ssh -c aes128-cbc root at 10.0.0.1 <mailto:root at 10.0.0.1> dd if=/dev/zero
>> count=102400 bs=1024 > /dev/null
>>
>> and there is no difference in performance between having geode_aes loaded
>> or not.
>>
>> I have to admit, I'm a bit puzzled as to what's going on here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Hans
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>> B.ASc, Computer Engineering
>> Simon Fraser University
>>
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Simon Fraser University

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