On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 09:36:57AM -0800, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > > But then would you like to extend AIO interface to take the IV and > something that would indicate the encrypt/decrypt operation on > aio_write()? Also as far as I can see AIO doesn't support splice() Any metadata such as the IV can still go through the existing sendmsg interface, just as you would do a sendmsg before a sendfile to set things up. > operation for zero copy, which is the main thing here. The AIO interface itself can accomodate zero-copy. It's just that we currently don't have any support for it in the network socket API. > >From the other hand it shouldn't be a problem to add crypto specific > stuff to include/uapi/linux/if_alg.h, because it is all about crypto > anyway, is it not? Yes but you're violating the meaning of sendpage(). The latter is not crypto-specific so you shouldn't be adding things that prevent future optimisations to it. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
