From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [ACRYPTO] New asynchronous crypto layer (acrypto) release. Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:51:20 +0400 Message-ID: <20060929105118.GA20194@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060928120826.GA18063@2ka.mipt.ru> <87wt7nm0x5.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Samuel Tardieu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wt7nm0x5.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:17:58PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu (sam@rfc1149.net) wrote: > >>>>> "Evgeniy" == Evgeniy Polyakov writes: > > Evgeniy> Hello. I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer > Evgeniy> (acrypto) [1] release for 2.6.18 kernel tree. Acrypto allows > Evgeniy> to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware. > > Would userspace programs benefit from this patch? In particular, would > OpenSSL get better performances on Via nehemiah CPUs or does it need > to be patched? Userspace supports Via Nehemiah CPUs crypto engine quite for a long time without any external patching. > Sam > -- > Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/ -- Evgeniy Polyakov