On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:11:00PM +0800, Weigang Li wrote: > This patch set introduces Asynchronous Compression API. > What is proposed is a new crypto type called crypto_acomp_type, > plus new struct acomp_alg and struct crypto_acomp, together with number > of helper functions to register acomp type algorithms and allocate tfm > instances. This is to make it similar to how the existing crypto API > works for the ablkcipher, and akcipher types. > The operations the new interface will provide are: > > int (*compress)(struct acompress_request *req); > int (*decompress)(struct acompress_request *req); > > The benefits it gives interface are: > - the new interface allows for asynchronous implementations and > scatterlist buffer that can use hardware to offload the compression > operations, the new asynchronous API can be called by the linux kernel > components (i.e., btrfs) who want to use hardware acceleration for data > compression. > > New helper functions have been added to allocate crypto_acomp instances > and invoke the operations to make it easier to use. > > Signed-off-by: Weigang Li <weigang.li@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the patch! Joonsoo Kim is also working on the compression interface for zram. Could you two collaborate and come up with one interface rather than two? Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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
