On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:54:16AM +0000, Dey, Megha wrote: > > Yeah I think I misunderstood. I think what you mean is to remove mcryptd.c completely and avoid the extra layer of indirection to call the underlying algorithm, instead call it directly, correct? > > So currently we have 3 algorithms registered for every multibuffer algorithm: > name : __sha1-mb > driver : mcryptd(__intel_sha1-mb) > > name : sha1 > driver : sha1_mb > > name : __sha1-mb > driver : __intel_sha1-mb > > If we remove mcryptd, then we will have just the 2? It should be down to just one, i.e., the current inner algorithm. It's doing all the scheduling work already so I don't really see why it needs the wrappers around it. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
