On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:38:49PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:24:51PM +0200, Steffen Klassert > (steffen.klass...@secunet.com) wrote: > > This patchset adds the 'pcrypt' parallel crypto template. With this > > template it > > is possible to process the crypto requests of a transform in parallel > > without > > getting request reorder. This is in particular interesting for IPsec. > > Why can't it be used by default for all crypto operations instead of > synchronous one?
PCI-based drivers will not benefit from spreading the requests across CPUs. If anything they will suffer from the synchronisation. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
