On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:03:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:59:05PM +0800, Li, Weigang wrote: > > > > The acomp is also SG-based, while scomp only accepts flat buffer. > > Right, but do we need a pointer-based scomp at all? IPComp would > certainly be better off with an SG-based interface. Any other > users of compression are presumably dealing with large amounts > of data where an SG interface would make more sense. > > A pointer interface makes sense for shash because you may be hashing > 16 bytes at a time. Nobody sane is going to be compressing 16 bytes, > or are they? Note that I'm fine with keeping an scomp interface underneath for those algorithms where the best way to handle SG input is to linearise things. But I would prefer that this interface is not exposed to kernel users unless it is absolutely required. 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
