On 03/06/2015 04:09 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: >> It helps to make it faster. >> > This way I can do some of the request setup beforehand and minimize overhead on the data path. > Do you have numbers to back this up? Ok, you are right. It was implemented that way when I used the qat type socket, which was rejected. It made more sense to do it that way as there was some dma remapping that I could do upfront. Now the difference in performance is negligible. I'll send v2 shortly. Thanks for pointing this out. -- 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