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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: {twofish,aes}-{x86_64,i586} versus C implementations
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:47:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820104714.GH16680@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070820094508.GE9651@Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc>

> Not modprobe, but the crypto subsystem. If you have the generic C code
> and the assembly variant it picks the assembly over C. The selection is

But only if they're both loaded. Who loads both? 

> In that case yes. Would it help to add MODULE_ALIAS("aes") to the
> assembly version in order to load it (atleast both)?

No, modprobe will only load the first it finds.

> >Also if one implementation is always better than the other
> >then I see little reason to ever have both.
> 
> If you are sure that nobody needs aes on machnies prio i586 than you
> could disable the generic version on i386.

Why should the i586 version not run on 486/386? 

> BUT: you might get into some trouble if you remove it from selections
> because some modules select it automaticly, IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP for
> instance.

Ok that is a problem.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-20  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-20  0:34 {twofish,aes}-{x86_64,i586} versus C implementations Andi Kleen
2007-08-20  1:01 ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-20 10:16   ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-20  9:45     ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-08-20 10:47       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-20 10:08         ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-08-20 11:12           ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-20 11:27             ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-08-20 12:06     ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-20 13:06       ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-20 13:07         ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-02 22:42         ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-09-04 13:58           ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 12:29           ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-19 21:46             ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-09-20  0:20               ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-20 21:09                 ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-09-30 12:23                   ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-09-30 12:42       ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-03  7:35         ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-04  8:35           ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-03 19:23             ` [PATCH] [crypto] load the DES module by an alias Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-05  8:48               ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-04  7:37             ` [PATCH] [crypto] load the AES " Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-05  8:52               ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-04  7:37             ` [PATCH] [crypto] load the SHA1[1|256] " Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-05  8:57               ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-05 13:50                 ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-05 13:12                   ` [PATCH] [crypto] load the SHA1[1|256] module by an alias (v2) Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-05 15:10                     ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-06 22:02                       ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-08  3:21                         ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-07 21:42                       ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-08  3:20                         ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-08 12:35                           ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-08  4:12                     ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-05 14:20                   ` [PATCH] [crypto] load the SHA1[1|256] module by an alias Herbert Xu
2007-10-06 21:54                     ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-08 11:25               ` Jan Glauber
2007-10-08 11:30                 ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-04  8:48             ` {twofish,aes}-{x86_64,i586} versus C implementations Herbert Xu
2007-10-04  9:31               ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-04 10:00                 ` Sebastian Siewior
2007-10-04 10:00                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-04  9:39               ` Sebastian Siewior

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