Hello,
after installing a DUAL-Boot system with ipfire 2.25-146 and OpenWrt I did some performance tests on my testsystem. It is running with a 2955U CPU (no hardware AES support).
I found that openssl on ipfire has up to 50% higher throughput on the same hardware.
Of course there are differences in openssl version and compiler options.
ipfire
OpenSSL 1.1.1c 28 May 2019
built on: Fri Aug 9 23:46:56 2019 UTC
options:bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -pthread -m64 -Wa,--noexecstack -O2 -pipe -Wall -fexceptions -fPIC -m64 -mindirect-branch=thunk -mfunction-return=thunk -mtune=generic -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fstack-protector-strong -DPURIFY -Wa,--noexecstack -O2 -pipe -Wall -fexceptions -fPIC -m64 -mindirect-branch=thunk -mfunction-return=thunk -mtune=generic -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -fstack-protector-strong -Wa,--noexecstack -DOPENSSL_USE_NODELETE -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_CPUID_OBJ -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DKECCAK1600_ASM -DRC4_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAES_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DBSAES_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -DX25519_ASM -DPOLY1305_ASM -DZLIB -DZLIB_SHARED -DNDEBUG -DPURIFY
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes
aes-128-cbc 50186.02k 100116.06k 132396.97k 144616.11k 147712.68k 148645.07k
chacha20 73095.57k 173716.25k 432990.89k 536452.44k 572882.94k 575711.91k
openwrt
OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020
built on: Sun Jul 19 00:01:06 2020 UTC
options:bn(64,64) rc4(16x,int) des(int) aes(partial) blowfish(ptr)
compiler: x86_64-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc -fPIC -pthread -m64 -Wa,--noexecstack -Wall -O3 -pipe -fno-caller-saves -fno-plt -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=unused-result -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -O3 -fpic -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -znow -zrelro -DOPENSSL_USE_NODELETE -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_CPUID_OBJ -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DKECCAK1600_ASM -DRC4_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DAESNI_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -DX25519_ASM -DPOLY1305_ASM -DNDEBUG
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes 16384 bytes
aes-128 cbc 89158.85k 92273.53k 92471.89k 93288.11k 93074.77k 93104.81k
chacha20-poly1305 99779.92k 184165.14k 358180.22k 380293.80k 389647.02k 390747.48k