On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 01:03:56PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > But we should probably start policing this a bit more. For instance, we now have > > drivers/net/macsec.c: > > /* Pick a sync gcm(aes) cipher to ensure order is preserved. */ > tfm = crypto_alloc_aead("gcm(aes)", 0, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC); > > (btw the comment is bogus, right?) > > TLS_SW does the same thing in net/tls/tls_device_fallback.c. Short of us volunteering to write code for every user out there I don't see a way out. > Async is obviously needed for h/w accelerators, but could we perhaps > do better for s/w SIMD algorithms? Those are by far the most widely > used ones. If you can come up with a way that avoids the cryptd model without using a fallback obviously that would be the ultimate solution. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt