(much) Faster disk encryption

Posted Jul 16, 2024 22:57 UTC (Tue) by bearstech (subscriber, #160755)
Parent article: The 6.10 kernel has been released

6.10 comes with massive improvements in AES-XTS encryption : https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Faster-AES-XTS

Most gains are in the +30%..+150% interval, and for lots of CPU generations. Impressive stuff. Let's encrypt everything at rest, it's cheap !