This series contain performance improvement regarding ahash requests. So far, ahash requests were systematically not chained at the DMA level. However, in some case, like this is the case by using IPSec, some ahash requests can be processed directly by the engine, and don't have intermediaire partial update states. This series firstly re-work the way outer IVs are copied from the SRAM into the dma pool. To do so, we introduce a common dma pool for all type of requests that contains outer results (like IV or digest). Then, for ahash requests that can be processed directly by the engine, outer results are copied from the SRAM into the common dma pool. These requests are then allowed to be chained at the DMA level. Benchmarking results with iperf throught IPSec ============================================== ESP AH Before 343 Mbits/s 492 Mbits/s After 392 Mbits/s 557 Mbits/s Improvement +14% +13% Romain Perier (2): crypto: marvell - Use an unique pool to copy results of requests crypto: marvell - Don't break chain for computable last ahash requests drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa.c | 4 --- drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa.h | 5 ++- drivers/crypto/marvell/cipher.c | 6 ++-- drivers/crypto/marvell/hash.c | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- drivers/crypto/marvell/tdma.c | 17 +++++---- 5 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) -- 2.9.3 -- 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