Re: [PATCH 02/12] crypto: qat - refactor submission logic

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On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 11:24:14AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 09:23:17AM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > Move the submission loop to a new function, qat_alg_send_message(), and
> > share it between the symmetric and the asymmetric algorithms.
> > 
> > If the HW queues are full return -ENOSPC instead of -EBUSY.
> > 
> > For both symmetric and asymmetric services set the number of retries
> > before returning an error to a value that works for both, 20 (was 10 for
> > symmetric and 100 for asymmetric).
> > 
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Marco Chiappero <marco.chiappero@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> What does this "fix" to require it to be backported to stable trees?
For two reasons, (1) the error code returned if the HW queues are full is
incorrect and (2) to facilitate the backport of the next fix "crypto:
qat - add backlog mechanism".
I can be more explicit in the commit message if required.

Thanks,

-- 
Giovanni



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