[strongSwan] Pcrypt module usage

[Kapil Adhikesavalu]

Hi All,

Can you please provide your input on this ?

Regards
Kapil.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Kapil Adhikesavalu <kapil20084 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> With the below steps I don't see any performance improvements in ipsec in
> a multicore HW. Is there anything I am missing?
>
> Thanks
> Kapil
>
> On 04-Aug-2016 5:37 PM, "Kapil Adhikesavalu" <kapil20084 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am getting the following errors while trying pcrypt. From the wiki page,
> i see when tcrypt is used, "modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tcrypt':
> Resource temporarily unavailable" is an expected. I am getting a
> different error, please let me know if this fine.
>
> The /proc/crypto logs in wiki page and mine looks little different, in
> terms of priority and block size; is there any dependency on block size
> w.r.t performance ?
>
> For using pcrypt, other than inserting this module, should i do any other
> configurations like core allocations ? and any ways to find if it uses
> multiple cores.
>
> modprobe pcrypt
> modprobe tcrypt alg="pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm(aes-aesni)))" type
> [  484.524117] tcrypt: one or more tests failed!
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tcrypt': Unknown symbol in module, or
> unknown parameter
>
>
> dmesg
> [   76.563444] tcrypt: one or more tests failed!
> [   78.883092] serial8250: too much work for irq4
> [   78.974078] serial8250: too much work for irq4
> [   79.060065] serial8250: too much work for irq4
> [   79.106058] serial8250: too much work for irq4
>
>
> root at genericx86-64:~# cat /proc/crypto
>
> name         : rfc4106(gcm(aes))
>
> driver       : pcrypt(rfc4106-gcm-aesni)
>
> module       : pcrypt
>
> priority     : 500
>
> refcnt       : 1
>
> selftest     : passed
>
> internal     : no
>
> type         : aead
>
> async        : yes
>
> blocksize    : 1
>
> ivsize       : 8
>
> maxauthsize  : 16
>
> geniv        : seqiv
>
>
> name         : rfc4106(gcm(aes-aesni))
> driver       : pcrypt(rfc4106(gcm_base(ctr(aes-aesni),ghash-generic)))
> module       : pcrypt
> priority     : 400
> refcnt       : 1
> selftest     : passed
> internal     : no
> type         : aead
> async        : yes
> blocksize    : 1
> ivsize       : 8
> maxauthsize  : 16
> geniv        : seqiv
> root at genericx86-64:~# uname -r
> 4.1.17-yocto-standard
> root at genericx86-64:~# lsb_release
> LSB Version:    core-4.1-noarch:core-4.1-x86_64
>
> Regards
> Kapil.
>
>
>
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