Re: Questions about the Crypto API

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On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:50:41PM +0000, Garg Vakul-B16394 wrote:
> Hi Herbert
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-crypto-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-crypto-
> > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Herbert Xu
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 12:30 PM
> > To: Marcelo Cerri
> > Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Questions about the Crypto API
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 05:25:57PM -0300, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> > >
> > > My first doubt is regarding which kind of concurrency the Crypto API
> > > allows. For example, can a single `struct crypto_tfm` be used by two
> > > concurrent calls? I'm asking about that because I noticed that for
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> 
> In this post, you mentioned that tfm is single threaded.
> Am I misinterpreting your statement?
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg08689.html
> 

Hi Herbert,

I also would like to better understand that. It doesn't seem natural for
me that a single tfm can be used by multiple kernel threads.

Best regards,
Marcelo

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