AES-NI Performance: eCryptfs vs. dmcrypt
Ubuntu 11.10 benchmarking of Intel AES-NI performance of the encrypted home feature (using eCryptfs) against the encrypted LVM (using dmcrypt) feature. Testing for Canonical and a future Phoronix.com article by Michael Larabel.
Encrypted Home (eCryptfs): Stock
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Encrypted Home (eCryptfs): AES-NI Intel
Encrypted LVM (dmcrypt): Stock
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system.
Encrypted LVM (dmcrypt): AES-NI Intel
Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.15.901, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
SQLite
PostMark
FS-Mark
Flexible IO Tester
Dbench
Dbench is a benchmark designed by the Samba project as a free alternative to netbench, but dbench contains only file-system calls for testing the disk performance. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.
Threaded I/O Tester
IOzone
CPU Usage Monitor
Encrypted Home (eCryptfs): Stock
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 5 October 2011 13:17 by user phoronix.
Encrypted Home (eCryptfs): AES-NI Intel
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system. Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 5 October 2011 14:42 by user phoronix.
Encrypted LVM (dmcrypt): Stock
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 8 October 2011 01:49 by user phoronix.
Encrypted LVM (dmcrypt): AES-NI Intel
Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP, Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: intel 2.15.901, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900
System Notes: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system.
Testing initiated at 8 October 2011 10:25 by user phoronix.