On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:10:00AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > +config CRYPTO_PCRYPT > + tristate "Parallel crypto engine (EXPERIMENTAL)" > + depends on USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS && EXPERIMENTAL > + select CRYPTO_MANAGER > + select CRYPTO_PCRYPT_CORE > + help > + This converts an arbitrary crypto algorithm into a parallel > + algorithm that is executed in a softirq.
BTW, do we really need softirqs for these things? Cryptographic operations are typically slow (especially when you have to move them to other CPUs to handle a single NIC:) so if we're going to the trouble of making it async then we should put them in work queues instead. 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
