Intel AES-NI For Full Disk Encryption

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 12 October 2011 at 08:29 AM EDT. Page 3 of 5. 9 Comments.

AES-NI for the full-disk encryption didn't influence the PostMark results.

The FS-Mark benchmark results went up by nearly 20% when loading the Intel AES-NI kernel module on Linux 3.0.

The CPU usage was also lower when utilizing the AES-NI instruction set.


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