[Soekris] Good ethernet != cheap ethernet (Warning, wandering OT..)

[Nicholas Lee]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:27:27AM +0200, Wim Vandeputte wrote:
> I'm wondering where the bottleneck is, either bad wifi performance 
> from a routing perspective, or just not enough CPU power and interupts
> to deal with the IPsec part? 

PCI bus bandwidth/latency.  

> openssl without hifn
> type              16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
> des-ede3-cbc       351.33k      370.68k      375.81k      376.78k      372.23k

> openssl with hifn
> type              16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
> des-ede3-cbc        32.76k      128.64k      470.02k     1585.84k     4538.26k

You can see that performance improves as size increases.

Nicholas