Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:42:19 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/crypto/nx: Add CRC and validation support for nx842 |
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:39:53AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > > hmm, that's true, and that would simplify the code a lot! No need for > the header anymore. But, since the sw driver is sooo much slower, it > would be important to be able to communicate the alignment and size > limits to the caller of the crypto compression api, via cra_alignmask > and cra_blocksize (for minimum size), as well as new fields for max > size (maybe cra_maxsize) and buffer length multiple - i.e. the buffer > length must be a multiple of N (maybe cra_blockmult or cra_blockmodulo > or something). Otherwise callers would get unexpectedly slow > performance if they use the wrong alignment or size.
Right. So who actually uses this?
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