linux-kernel - Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:32:19 +0200
From:	Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@...tls.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	cryptodev-linux-devel@....org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto

On 08/28/2011 10:35 PM, David Miller wrote:

>> The benchmark idea was to test the speed of initialization, encryption
>> and deinitiation, as well as the encryption speed alone. These are the
>> most common use cases of the frameworks (i.e. how they would be used
>> by a cryptographic library).
> Be sure to use splice() with AF_ALG for maximum performance.
> For example, see the test program below.  You'll need to replace
> "8192" with whatever the page size is on your cpu.

As I understand with splice you can encrypt only page aligned data that 
span a multiple of pages. This is a very uncommon case. My benchmark 
targets the generic case, i.e., the way this interface will be used in 
crypto libraries like gnutls.

However, I'll update the comparison page to include the splice version 
as well.

regards,
Nikos
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