On (11/24/15 12:20), Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > There are some crypto acclerators out there so that putting tls into the > kernel would give a net benefit, because otherwise user space has to > copy data into the kernel for device access and back to user space until > it can finally be send out on the wire. > > Since processors provide aesni and other crypto extensions as part of > their instruction set architecture, this, of course, does not make sense > any more.
BTW, that, exactly, was what happened to Solaris kssl. --Sowmini -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/