From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:13:53 +0800 Message-ID: <20110901151352.GA32055@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20110901133952.GB14522@orbit.nwl.cc> <20110901141445.GA31447@gondor.apana.org.au> <20110901150928.GC14522@orbit.nwl.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: nmav@gnutls.org, cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110901150928.GC14522@orbit.nwl.cc> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 05:09:28PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > > Good point. So in order to also test the throughput, I've put my OpenRD > under load: No that's not what I meant. You're pushing a request to an async device and waiting for a response to come back before pushing the next request. In order to maximise throughput, you need to issue your requests without waiting for the responses synchronously. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt