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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: algif - Mark sgl end at the end of data
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 07:03:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <547C8324.4000801@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141201150010.GA18277@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 12/01/2014 07:00 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> As I said the two are arbitrary and we don't place any restrictions
> on them at all (apart from the fact that the TX length in bytes must
> obviously be longer than the RX bytes).
> 
> So you can have a 1-element TX list with a multi-element RX list.

Ok, I can look at the data, but do you think the idea with marking the
end of data in TX sgl is worthwhile or should I just forget about it.
Another question is - is an sgl with lots of empty buffers a valid input
from an algorithm implementation point of view?
Thanks,
Tadeusz

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-01 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-28 18:40 [PATCH] crypto: algif - Mark sgl end at the end of data Tadeusz Struk
2014-12-01 14:40 ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-01 14:53   ` Tadeusz Struk
2014-12-01 15:00     ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-01 15:03       ` Tadeusz Struk [this message]
2014-12-02 14:33         ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-02 15:06           ` Tadeusz Struk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-21 17:14 Tadeusz Struk
2014-11-25 14:42 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-25 15:53   ` Tadeusz Struk

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