On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:05:59AM +0000, Iuliana Prodan wrote: > > Sorry, but I don't understand what is wrong here? I'm using the correct > type, the specific type, for the request when sending it to crypto engine. > This transfer_request_to_engine function is called from caam_jr_enqueue, > where I have all types of request, so I'm using the async_request, and > when transferring to crypto engine I cast it to the specific type. These internal types are only for use by the crypto API and helper code such as crypto_engine. They should not be used by drivers in general. > I believe is an overhead to sent all request to crypto engine since most > of them can be directly executed by hw. > Also, in case there is no need for backlog and the hw is busy we can > drop the request. If the crypto_engine has so much overhead then you should work on fixing crypto_engine and not work around it like this. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
