Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:17:46 +0300 | From | Jarkko Sakkinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation |
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 05:45:35PM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > Hi Jarkko, > Thanks for reviewing the patch. > There are applications/frameworks where a worker thread is not an option. > Take for example the IoT use-cases and frameworks like IoT.js, or "Node.js for IoT". > They are all single threaded, event-driven frameworks, using non-blocking I/O as the base of their processing model. > Similarly embedded applications, which are basically just a single threaded event loop, quite often don't use threads because of resources constrains. > > If your concern is that user space will not adopt to this, I can say that TSS library [1] is currently blocked on this feature, and we can not enable some of the use-cases mentioned above because of this. > > Thanks, > Tadeusz > > [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss
I put this into "mathematical" terms. TPM is by nature is blocking. It does not scale this way so you are essentially just simulating non-blocking behaviour.
/Jarkko
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