From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Cc: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros•de>,
Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@breakpoint•cc>
Subject: Re: AltiVec in the kernel
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:49:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912111649.25617.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091211114543.GF24650@honey.hogyros.de>
On Friday 11 December 2009, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since there has been a thread on allowing the use of a coprocessor in
> the kernel already: I am wondering if it'd make sense to use AltiVec for
> AES in dm-crypt, and how difficult it would be to implement that.
>
> I'm using a PegasosII which has a G4 running at 1 GHz; I get around 3
> MB/s throughput when accessing harddisks. I think that could be
> improved.
>
> If I understand correctly, the actual encryption work runs in a kernel
> thread, which is scheduled normally, so it ought to be possible to
> enable AltiVec for that thread; am I missing something here?
Sebastian Siewior has implemented this some time ago:
http://old.nabble.com/-RFC-0-3--Experiments-with-AES-AltiVec,-part-2-tc10034255.html
You can try the old patches on your machine to see if they are any good
there.
Arnd <><
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-11 11:45 AltiVec in the kernel Simon Richter
2009-12-11 15:49 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-12-16 22:11 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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2006-07-18 12:48 Matt Sealey
2006-07-18 13:53 ` Kumar Gala
2006-07-18 15:10 ` Matt Sealey
2006-07-18 17:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-07-19 18:10 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-07-19 18:19 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-07-19 18:38 ` Johannes Berg
2006-07-19 18:57 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-07-20 12:31 ` Matt Sealey
2006-07-20 13:23 ` Kumar Gala
2006-07-20 13:33 ` Matt Sealey
2006-07-20 17:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-07-20 18:47 ` Brian D. Carlstrom
2006-07-20 19:05 ` Olof Johansson
2006-07-20 21:56 ` Brian D. Carlstrom
2006-07-20 22:39 ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-07-21 6:35 ` Olof Johansson
2006-07-21 14:42 ` Matt Sealey
2006-07-21 16:51 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-07-21 18:08 ` Matt Sealey
2006-07-22 3:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-07-23 13:28 ` Matt Sealey
2006-07-23 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-21 18:46 ` Brian D. Carlstrom
2006-07-21 21:30 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-07-21 22:21 ` Peter Bergner
2006-07-18 18:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-07-18 17:43 ` Paul Mackerras
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