cryptodev is not merged into upstream from what I know. gnutls can use cryptodev and AF_ALG as crypto engines. >From some benchmarks (that can also be found on cryptodev's webpage) you can see AF_ALG has a lot overhead over a standalone misc/char device. On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 18/03/2015 17:01, Catalin Vasile wrote: >> To be more exact, I want to make a virtio-crypto device to emulate a >> virtual cryptographic offloading device that will send jobs from the >> guest to a vhost that will process the jobs. This mechanism will link >> CryptoAPI from the guest to the CryptoAPI from the host. This way, >> whatever it's beneath CryptoAPI from the host will be used as >> offloading for the guest. >> Is there a mentor interested in getting involved in this kind of project? > > I think it's very likely that you'll find a mentor. Please submit a > proposal, also detailing the advantage of vhost over a userspace > solution (using any of gnutls, AF_ALG, cryptodev). > > Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
