Re: [PATCH 0/2] Crypto: Remove x86 dependency on QAT drivers

From: Giovanni Cabiddu
Date: Fri Jun 17 2022 - 04:49:35 EST


Hi Yoan,

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:25:33PM +0000, Yoan Picchi wrote:
> The QAT acceleration card can be very helpfull for some tasks like dealing
> with IPSEC but it is currently restricted to be used only on x86 machine.
> Looking at the code we didn't see any reasons why those drivers might not
> work on other architectures. We've successfully built all of them on x86,
> arm64, arm32, mips64, powerpc64, riscv64 and sparc64.
>
> We also have tested the driver with an Intel Corporation C62x Chipset
> QuickAssist Technology (rev 04) PCIe card on an arm64 server. After the numa
> patch, it works with the AF_ALG crypto userland interface, allowing us to
> encrypt some data with cbc for instance. We've also successfully created some
> VF, bound them to DPDK, and used the card this way, thus showing some real
> life usecases of x86 do work on arm64 too.
>
> Changelog v1 ... v2:
> - add COMPILE_TEST to Kconfig
>
> Andre Przywara (1):
> crypto: qat: replace get_current_node() with numa_node_id()
>
> Yoan Picchi (1):
> Removes the x86 dependency on the QAT drivers
Would you mind re-sending the set changing the headline of the commit
messages as reported in the previous email?
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg64584.html

Thanks,

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Giovanni