Re: [RFC PATCH 23/28] algif: Remove hash_sendpage*()

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On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 04:47:50PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>
> I must be missing something, I think.  What's particularly optimal about the
> code in hash_sendpage() but not hash_sendmsg()?  Is it that the former uses
> finup/digest, but the latter ony does update+final?

A lot of hardware hashes can't perform partial updates, so they
will always fall back to software unless you use finup/digest.

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