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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH v2 0/4] Parallel IPsec
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:10:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090425101019.GA28498@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090425092142.GA5830@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 05:21:42PM +0800, Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au) wrote:
> > Why can't it be used by default for all crypto operations instead of
> > synchronous one?
> 
> PCI-based drivers will not benefit from spreading the requests
> across CPUs.  If anything they will suffer from the synchronisation.

What's the deal PCI drivers have with CPUs data comes from/to?
They do not touch cache, just run DMA transfer and complete the request.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-25 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-24 10:24 [RFC] [PATCH v2 0/4] Parallel IPsec Steffen Klassert
2009-04-24 10:26 ` [RFC] [PATCH v2 1/4] padata: generic interface for parallel processing Steffen Klassert
2009-04-27  8:56   ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-24 10:27 ` [RFC] [PATCH v2 2/4] pcrypt: Add pcrypt crypto parallelization engine Steffen Klassert
2009-04-27  8:56   ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28  6:23     ` Steffen Klassert
2009-04-28  6:31       ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28  6:41         ` Steffen Klassert
2009-04-24 10:28 ` [RFC] [PATCH v2 3/4] xfrm: Add a netlink attribute for software crypto accelerators Steffen Klassert
2009-04-27  8:53   ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-28 10:11     ` Steffen Klassert
2009-04-24 10:29 ` [RFC] [PATCH v2 4/4] esp: Use pcrypt if it is selected as software crypto accelerator Steffen Klassert
2009-04-25  8:38 ` [RFC] [PATCH v2 0/4] Parallel IPsec Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-04-25  9:21   ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-25 10:10     ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2009-04-25 10:56       ` Herbert Xu

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