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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Proc USENIX Symp Oper Syst Des Implement (OSDI). 2012:61–75.

Table 7.

CPU utilization for tap networking without encryption, with encryption, and using PCI assignment when transferring an 800MB file via netcat. The throughput is 794±3 Mbps for all runs.

No encryption AES-NI PCI assignment
CPU util (%) 27.7±2.7 36.0±1.6 14.7±4.2