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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xuquan8@huawei.com, weidong.huang@huawei.com,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, hanweidong@huawei.com,
	claudio.fontana@huawei.com, mst@redhat.com,
	luonengjun@huawei.com, wanzongshun@huawei.com,
	stefanha@redhat.com, jianjay.zhou@huawei.com,
	longpeng2@huawei.com, davem@davemloft.net, wu.wubin@huawei.com,
	arei.gonglei@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/1] crypto: add virtio-crypto driver
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:27:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e235caf4-f51c-dccf-4eb7-548d3fa71644@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481767396-187748-2-git-send-email-arei.gonglei@huawei.com>

On 12/15/2016 03:03 AM, Gonglei wrote:
[...]
> +
> +static struct crypto_alg virtio_crypto_algs[] = { {
> +	.cra_name = "cbc(aes)",
> +	.cra_driver_name = "virtio_crypto_aes_cbc",
> +	.cra_priority = 501,


This is still higher than the hardware-accelerators (like intel aesni or the
s390 cpacf functions or the arm hw). aesni and s390/cpacf are supported by the
hardware virtualization and available to the guests. I do not see a way how virtio
crypto can be faster than that (in the end it might be cpacf/aesni + overhead)
instead it will very likely be slower.
So we should use a number that is higher than software implementations but
lower than the hw ones.

Just grepping around, the software ones seem be be around 100 and the hardware 
ones around 200-400. So why was 150 not enough?

Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15  2:03 [PATCH v8 0/1] virtio-crypto: add Linux driver Gonglei
2016-12-15  2:03 ` [PATCH v8 1/1] crypto: add virtio-crypto driver Gonglei
2017-01-10 12:27   ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2017-01-10 12:36     ` Gonglei (Arei)
2017-01-10 12:56       ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-01-12 14:10         ` Christian Borntraeger
2017-01-12 14:23           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-01-13  1:56             ` Gonglei (Arei)

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