How to tell if SPARC T4 crypto is being used?
- by danx
A question that often comes up when running applications on SPARC T4 systems is "How can I tell if hardware crypto accleration is being used?"
To review, the SPARC T4 processor includes a crypto unit that supports several crypto instructions.
For hardware crypto these include 11 AES instructions, 4 xmul* instructions (for AES GCM carryless…