On 07/22/2015 11:55 AM, Stephan Mueller wrote: > I concur with you. But we have only two options: > > - either use SGLs which the current akcipher API does not do > > - or do a memcpy of the sendpage data into the internal buffer I would memcpy it here. Both the current software and QAT implementations do not support SGL so we'll end up memcpy it anyway. > > As the sendpage already has a speed penalty, I did not like the latter one. > Based on my measurements for AEAD, Hash and skicpher, sendpage starts to > become faster than sendmsg with input buffers > 8 to 16 kBytes (sendpage as at > least 4 syscalls where sendmsg uses only two). > > As our current akcipher API does not reach the mentioned limit, I opted to > require one sendpage call. > > But if we change the akcipher API to SGLs, I will lift that limit. As you said - the preferred way of invoking this would be sendmsg with data instead of splice. This is only to make splice happy in case the data is not in a contiguous buffer. Thanks, T -- 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
