On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:47:27AM +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: > I am not talking about user space API at all. > > I talk about kernel crypto API and kernel clients. > > Please understand the following: when update() is called driver does not > know if it is last update or not... > That is essential. > If client code would always use update/finup then it is fine.. > But original API and clients uses update/final... > That is why some way (flag) needed to tell if finup() will be used or not... > > It gave up 20% performance improvement in some case because no extra > memcpy has been done... > > If you think about other solution, please share... If the crypto user can set the FINUP flag then it can just call finup, simple. 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-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
