On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:38:49PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:24:51PM +0200, Steffen Klassert (steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > This patchset adds the 'pcrypt' parallel crypto template. With this template it > > is possible to process the crypto requests of a transform in parallel without > > getting request reorder. This is in particular interesting for IPsec. > > Why can't it be used by default for all crypto operations instead of > synchronous one? PCI-based drivers will not benefit from spreading the requests across CPUs. If anything they will suffer from the synchronisation. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <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-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
