linux-kernel - Re: phoronix test, openssl bad performance

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Message-ID: <20091211101430.GQ18989@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:14:30 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@...il.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: phoronix test,  openssl bad performance

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:44:55AM +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 12/10/2009 11:03 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > You should probably report that to Fedora through their bugzilla, 
> > it's unlikely to be a linux kernel problem.
> 
> I got *same* results with Fedora kernel as with a _clean_ 2.6.32-kernel.org
> Not a Fedora-kernel problem!

What I meant is that the kernel should not normally affect SSL performance.
OpenSSL (or whatever SSL package is used) is all user-space. So it needs 
to be looked at whoever maintains the SSL libraries first.

linux-kernel is really only for kernel problems.

-Andi

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