On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 06:27:04PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
>
> I think the definition of the acomp interface already allows for this.
> If the destination scatterlist inside the request is NULL, the
> algorithm/driver can allocate pages of memory for the output buffers as
> well as the scatt
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:05:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> When I said acomp layer I'm referring specifically to the algorithm
> or driver. As to your last question it would be the caller's
> responsibility to free that memory.
>
> The use-case is our oldest user, IPcomp. Most packets are 1500
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:54:25PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > I think you may have misread my earlier message from June. What
> > I'd like to see is for the acomp layer to allocate the output
> > memory, rather than have it provided by the user as is the case
> > with the current interface
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 05:22:44PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I'm suggesting that we have just one set of buffers for all scomp
> algorithms. After all, a CPU can only process one request at a
> time.
Makes sense. Implemented in v8.
> Yes scomp should just be flat. A sync algorithm capable of pr
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:51:40PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:26:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Rather than duplicating the scratch buffer handling in every scomp
> > algorithm, let's centralize this and put it into scomp.c.
> Are you suggesting
Hi Herbert,
apologies for the duplicate. The previous email didn't get delivered to
the ML.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:26:18PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Rather than duplicating the scratch buffer handling in every scomp
> algorithm, let's centralize this and put it into scomp.c.
Are you suggesti
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:49:36PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
>
> + lzo_src_scratches = crypto_scomp_alloc_scratches(LZO_SCRATCH_SIZE);
> + if (!lzo_src_scratches)
> + return -ENOMEM;
Rather than duplicating the scratch buffer handling in every scomp
algorithm, let's centra
Add scomp backend for lzo compression algorithm
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu
---
crypto/Kconfig |1 +
crypto/lzo.c | 146 +++-
2 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig
index f55
