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The most interesting bit about this article for me is the "transition time" to get the power needed use AVX-256 or AVX-512 which is present on Intel, but not AMD zen4/zen5. It explains some behavior that I saw years ago when implementing kTLS on FreeBSD, and validates our design of having per-core kTLS crypto worker threads, rather than doing the crypto in the context of sosend() or sendfile's tcp_usr_ready().



Any chance you’d move to using Intel for your content servers in the foreseeable future?

Or this further cements the use of AMD?


It doesn't matter so much anymore, since we use kTLS offload NICs.


Do you only offload aes-gcm or do the NICs handle chacha20-poly1305 too?




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