The way the algif_skcipher works currently is that on sendmsg/sendpage it builds an sgl for the input data and then on read/recvmsg it sends the job for encryption putting the user to sleep till the data is processed. This way it can only handle one job at a given time. To be able to fuly utilize the potential of existing crypto hardware accelerators it is required to submit multiple jobs in asynchronously. This series adds support for asynchronous operations for algif_skcipher. First patch enables af_alg sgl to be linked. Second patch implement asynch read for skcipher. Changes in v2: - Use kmalloc instead of caches Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@xxxxxxxxx> --- Tadeusz Struk (2): crypto: af_alg - Allow to link sgl crypto: algif - change algif_skcipher to be asynchronous crypto/af_alg.c | 18 +++- crypto/algif_skcipher.c | 233 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/crypto/if_alg.h | 4 + 3 files changed, 242 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 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