From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932269AbWFZNRq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:17:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932291AbWFZNRq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:17:46 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:51065 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932269AbWFZNRp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:17:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QRjVWfJs25q0w+2BnQuHYyjBYC63DG/6xVLJGKgnK12UVnT7EBMD2EvZWr3JpirPel5iK55vpbnblow40gpFk3qBtBopl7kOorOSjTP55HzvYUd5GbT/bfufZjfbCvLMWUyC0JFVwYpp0NQBzU+wpmfIri2sTCuQmgkFLaHWRyQ= Message-ID: <2cf1ee820606260617v7ea151c7kf5f7935da87adae6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:17:43 +0300 From: "emin ak" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Fwd: huge performance loss with ipsec 2.6.16.20 on ppc85xx In-Reply-To: <2cf1ee820606260616v2583c063w20caac144b52ccbb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <2cf1ee820606260616v2583c063w20caac144b52ccbb@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear All, I'am planning to use linux 2.6 ipsec for an vpn design with an embedded powerpc (mpc85xx) family. Basic routing performance looks pretty for the system with 2.6.16.20 kernel --------------------------------------------------- Basic routing performance on ppc85xx 64Byte packets: 230680 pps 512 Byte packets: 176221 pps 1518 Byte packets: 77617 pps --------------------------------------------------- Software AES 256 ipsec tunnel mode routing performance (with manual keyying): 64Byte packets: 55059pps (-%76 lesser then normal routing) 512 Byte packets: 23496 pps (-%87 lesser then routing) 1518 Byte packets: 8533 pps (-%90 lesser then routing) ----------------------------------------------------- I know software encryption/ decryption affects system performance alot, but isn't %90 decreasement so much for this effect? Is there any ipsec performance benchmark with same of different platform, or anyting wrong with my tests? Thanks alot for the responses.. Regads Emin Ak