Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:54:04 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure. |
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:36:24PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> > > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:05:45 +0900 > > > > > Of course, we need to balance any effort spent on this with the > > > likelihood that hardware improvements will soon make this obsolete > > > (for IPsec anyway). > > > > True, but old hardware will always exist. > > ...Also, producing buggy hardware will not suddently just vanish either > ("can you please turn of ipsec offloading and see if you can still > reproduce" :-))...
That's fine. If your AES hardware is buggy you just fall back to using the software version.
In fact if this was done through the crypto API it would even happen automatically.
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