On Fri, 2014-07-25 at 09:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:09:32PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > > This patch introduces the multi-buffer crypto daemon which is responsible > > for submitting crypto jobs in a work queue to the responsible multi-buffer > > crypto algorithm. The idea of the multi-buffer algorihtm is to put > > data streams from multiple jobs in a wide (AVX2) register and then > > take advantage of SIMD instructions to do crypto computation on several > > buffers simultaneously. > > > > The multi-buffer crypto daemon is also responsbile for flushing the > > remaining buffers to complete the computation if no new buffers arrive > > for a while. > > How is any of this SHA1 specific as the Subject says it is? Yes, I should simply say multibuffer crypto hash infrastructure in the subject line. Tim -- 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
