Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Herbert, Mikulas, > > I noticed the discussion about using kmalloc() inside crypto code and it > made me wonder if the code in xts.c can actually be simplified to not > require kmalloc() at all, while not badly affecting performace. I played > around with it a little and it turns out we can drop the whole caching > of tweak blocks, reducing code size by ~200 lines and not only preserve, > but even improve the performance in some cases. See the full patch > below. > > Obviously, this doesn't solve the general issue of using kmalloc() in > crypto API routines, but it does resolve the original reported problem > and also makes the XTS code easier to maintain. Nice work. Unfortunately it doesn't apply against the latest cryptodev tree. Please rebase and resubmit. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
