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From: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:39:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519143904.GA25684@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150519142755.GB32663@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:27:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:14:30AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > 
> > There can be multiple reads going on in parallel, so we're currently
> > creating tfm's as necessary.  In fact one of the things that we've
> 
> A single tfm is fully-reentrant (as long as you don't change the
> key).  So multiple reads/writes on a single file can all use one
> tfm with no locking at all.

Cool, we didn't realize this was the case.  Excellent, this makes life
much simpler for us!  :-)

Thanks,

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19  5:46 [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19  5:49 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-19  6:24   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19  6:31     ` [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v2] " Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19  6:32       ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-19  6:32     ` [PATCH] " Herbert Xu
2015-05-19  6:58       ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19  6:59         ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-19  7:13           ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19  7:15             ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-19  7:27               ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19  7:30                 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-19  7:59                   ` Jaegeuk Kim
2015-05-19 14:14               ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-19 14:27                 ` Herbert Xu
2015-05-19 14:39                   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2015-05-20  7:21                   ` Steffen Klassert
2015-05-20 14:59                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-05-20 15:30                       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-05-20 15:42                         ` Herbert Xu

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