GELI: No hardware encryption since upgrade processor

[jyavenard]

I noticed that since I changed the processor and motherboard Geli seems to not be be using hardware encryption.

GEOM_ELI: Device mirror/swap0.eli created.
GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128
GEOM_ELI: Crypto: accelerated software
GEOM_ELI: Device mirror/swap1.eli created.
GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128
GEOM_ELI: Crypto: accelerated software
GEOM_ELI: Device mirror/swap2.eli created.
GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-XTS 128
GEOM_ELI: Crypto: accelerated software

when it use to have "Crypto: hardware" in there.

CPU: AMD EPYC 7302P 16-Core Processor (3000.18-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x830f10 Family=0x17 Model=0x31 Stepping=0
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,
SSE2,HTT>
Features2=0x7ed8320b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,FMA,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND>
AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x75c237ff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT,TCE,Topology,PCXC,PNXC,DBE,PL2I,MWAITX,ADMSKX>

AESNI is reported as supported by the processor (there's no option in the motherboard's BIOS to enable/disable that feature)

Any particular reason crypto wouldn't be using AESNI with geli here?

 

[jyavenard]

Hmmm..

It seems to be just how FreeBSD 13 reports it.

geli(8) now reports the use of accelerated software cryptography (such as AES-NI on x86 CPUs) as "accelerated software" rather than "hardware". This is purely a change in naming, and does not imply reduced performance or support. a3d565a1188f (Sponsored by Chelsio Communications)

never mind then.

 

[NickF]

Out of curiosity, is there a noticeable increase in pool import speed on a cold boot with this enabled?

 

[jyavenard]

Out of curiosity, is there a noticeable increase in pool import speed on a cold boot with this enabled?

Can't say I ever measured. It's processor specific and if it's supported it's used.