Hello zfs-discuss,
I wonder if ZFS will be able to take any advantage of Niagara''s
built-in crypto?
--
Best regards,
Robert Milkowski mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl
http://milek.blogspot.com
Robert Milkowski wrote:> Hello zfs-discuss, > > I wonder if ZFS will be able to take any advantage of Niagara''s > built-in crypto?Yes it will, and without any special code being added either. The cryptographic framework takes care of this for us by default. When we do a crypto_encrypt()/crypto_decrypt()/crypto_digest() it will automatically schedule the job to the most appropriate place depending on what the algorithm is, what hardware and software providers are available, what the job size is and what the loading of the providers is. -- Darren J Moffat
Simple answer : yes. -r Robert Milkowski writes: > Hello zfs-discuss, > > I wonder if ZFS will be able to take any advantage of Niagara''s > built-in crypto? > > > -- > Best regards, > Robert Milkowski mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl > http://milek.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Hello Darren, Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 9:47:38 AM, you wrote: DJM> Robert Milkowski wrote:>> Hello zfs-discuss, >> >> I wonder if ZFS will be able to take any advantage of Niagara''s >> built-in crypto?DJM> Yes it will, and without any special code being added either. The DJM> cryptographic framework takes care of this for us by default. DJM> When we do a crypto_encrypt()/crypto_decrypt()/crypto_digest() it will DJM> automatically schedule the job to the most appropriate place depending DJM> on what the algorithm is, what hardware and software providers are DJM> available, what the job size is and what the loading of the providers is. Roch and Darren - thanks for info. -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl http://milek.blogspot.com