Re: AW: AW: SSL accelarators

[pb <peterbaitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The SSL_accept operation is the bottleneck for
> non-hardware SSL
> processing, SSL_accept handles the private key which
> costs very
> much. The hw accel cards offload atleast this
> processing (the
> engine is used internally from SSL_accept) but we
> continue to call 
> SSL_read and SSL_write without using the hw engine.


Would an SMP system make a difference such that the OS
and general I/O is not bogged down?







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