Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:06:33 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryptioin infrastructure support |
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:21:03PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > > c) Add support to crypto scatterwalk support that can sleep during > encryption operation, as we may have buffers for jobs in data lanes > that are half-finished, waiting for additional jobs to come to fill > empty lanes before we start the encryption again. Therefore, we need to > enhance crypto walk with the option to map data buffers non-atomically. > This is done by algorithms run from crypto daemon who knows it is safe > to do so as it can save and restore FPU state in correct context.
What about the existing ablkcipher scatterwalk helpers?
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