Re: [RFC 1/2] SPU-AES support (kernel side)

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Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Limit means you want me to drop requests after a certain limit (i.e.
> when my queue is full)?

Yep, there's no point in holding onto lots of requests if the
hardware simply can't catch up.

> I would have to start an extra thread that removes requests from
> crypto_enqueue_request and enqueues them into kspu_enqueue_work_item.

I'm probably missing something but why couldn't you pull the requests
from crypto_enqueue_request in the same place where you pull requests
currently? In other words couldn't you just pull both queues?

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