Re: comparison of the AF_ALG interface with the /dev/crypto

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Sep 01 2011 - 11:14:01 EST


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,
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