SMB3 encryption performance

[Ira Cooper]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:47:38PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> Doesn't help for non-Linux, but I don't know how many other OS
> have hardware optimizations for AES (other than Windows and Linux)

Anything running on Intel with access to the XMM registers.

http://iacr.org/archive/fse2009/56650054/56650054.pdf

I'd expect FreeBSD, Illumos, and just about anyone serious about
supporting Intel to support these.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni

Supports this assessment.

Nothing requiring the kernel here... in fact I wouldn't want to use a
kernel API for this at all!

Thanks,

-Ira