Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:07:47 -0500 | From | Bruce Fields <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/18] crypto: Add generic Kerberos library |
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 04:54:06PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote: > > > Really? My understanding of the Linux kernel SUNRPC implementation is > > that it uses asynchronous, even for small data items. Maybe I'm using > > the terminology incorrectly. > > Seems to be synchronous, at least in its use of skcipher:
Yes, it's all synchronous. The only cases where we defer and revisit a request is when we need to do upcalls to userspace.
(And those upcalls mostly come after we're done with unwrapping and verifying a request, so now I'm sort of curious exactly what Chuck was seeing.)
--b.
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