[PATCH] Use Intel AES instruction set if it exists.

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Fri Sep 1 17:00:17 UTC 2017


On Friday, 1 September 2017 18:51:04 CEST Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 06:45:53PM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > On Friday, 1 September 2017 17:42:37 CEST Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > > Andreas and Andrew, this is an *OUT OF THE BOX* 2x performance
> > > improvement
> > > when using signing and sealing, which is becoming an increasingly
> > > important
> > > workload.
> > > 
> > > I understand wanting to use clean API's, and am willing to work
> > > towards that. I have no problems working towards using libnettle.
> > 
> > I'm ok if you add it but then start working on moving us in the direction
> > to libnettle or GnuTLS.
> 
> That's fair - I'm willing to do that.
> 
> > Günther and I normally have a major pain when Samba adds new crypto in its
> > source code.
> 
> I understand. I won't add this until I've spoken to you in person
> (or over the phone :-). Will you be at the SNIA SDC Conference next
> week ? If not let's chat on the phone.

I wont be at SNIA SDC. I'm going on vacation soon.



	Andreas

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