Re: [PATCH] crypto: algif - change algif_skcipher to be asynchronous

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 02:40:56PM -0800, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
>
> Ok, It looks to me that we *do* have all we need to implement zero copy
> and AIO with algif_skcipher. The only thing we need to do is to add
> support for it in skcipher_recvmsg(). I think no change is required in
> neither skcipher_sendmsg(), skcipher_sendpage(), nor the if_alg interface.
> Then to start using the interface asynchronously an application will
> need to call aio_read() or lio_listio() instead of read(), but if
> someone will use read(), then it will still work in the same
> (synchronous) way as it is today.
> How does this sound to you, Herbert?

It sounds good but let's see the code first :)
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