RE: [PATCH V8 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryption infrastructure support

From: Dey, Megha
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 21:21:40 EST




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>From: Herbert Xu [mailto:herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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>To: Dey, Megha <megha.dey@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryption infrastructure
>support
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>On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 01:24:42AM +0000, Dey, Megha wrote:
>>
>> Are you suggesting that the SIMD wrapper, will do what is currently being
>done by the ' mcryptd_queue_worker ' function (assuming FPU is not disabled)
>i.e dispatching the job to the inner algorithm?
>>
>> I have got rid of the mcryptd layer( have an inner layer, outer SIMD layer,
>handled the pointers and completions accordingly), but still facing some issues
>after removing the per cpu mcryptd_cpu_queue.
>
>Why don't you post what you've got and we can work it out together?

Hi Herbert,

Sure, I will post an RFC patch. (crypto: Remove mcryptd).

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