Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/5] pcrypt: Add pcrypt crypto parallelization wrapper

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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:10:00AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> +config CRYPTO_PCRYPT
> +	tristate "Parallel crypto engine (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> +	depends on USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS && EXPERIMENTAL
> +	select CRYPTO_MANAGER
> +	select CRYPTO_PCRYPT_CORE
> +	help
> +	  This converts an arbitrary crypto algorithm into a parallel
> +	  algorithm that is executed in a softirq.

BTW, do we really need softirqs for these things? Cryptographic
operations are typically slow (especially when you have to move
them to other CPUs to handle a single NIC:) so if we're going to
the trouble of making it async then we should put them in work
queues instead.

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