Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:59:00 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       jmorris@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] AES assembler implementation for x86_64
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> Microbenchmark:
> ===============
> The microbenchmark was done in userspace with similar compile flags as
> used during kernel compile.
> Encrypt/decrypt is about 35% faster than the generic C implementation.
> As the generic C as well as my assembler implementation are both table
> driven I don't really expect that there is much room for further
> improvements though I'll be glad to be corrected here.

On what CPUs did you benchmark? I suppose results will vary a lot
between AMD and Intel x86-64 CPUs.

-Andi
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