On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:55:37PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:44:48AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:40:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > > What we could do is to use the cpuid-based probing when an algorithm > > > > is needed to selectively load the relevant implementations instead > > > > of all of them. However, for most algorithms it won't make that > > > > big a difference since all the available ones will be loaded anyway. > > > > > > Yes cpuid probing does that. > > > > I was under the impression that using cpuid meant that the algorithm > > would be loaded regardless of whether it has been requested, as long > > as the cpuid matches. > > It loads it always correct. You mean with cpuid it'll always load the algorithm if it is available even if noone is using it? Then it's probably not a good fit for serpent. 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
