From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Johannes Goetzfried"
<Johannes.Goetzfried@informatik.stud.uni-erlangen.de>,
"Jussi Kivilinna" <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
"Tilo Müller" <Tilo.Mueller@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: serpent - add x86_64/avx assembler implementation
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:55:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120530215537.GA27374@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120530214448.GA15031@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:44:48AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:40:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > > What we could do is to use the cpuid-based probing when an algorithm
> > > is needed to selectively load the relevant implementations instead
> > > of all of them. However, for most algorithms it won't make that
> > > big a difference since all the available ones will be loaded anyway.
> >
> > Yes cpuid probing does that.
>
> I was under the impression that using cpuid meant that the algorithm
> would be loaded regardless of whether it has been requested, as long
> as the cpuid matches.
It loads it always correct.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-30 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-27 14:51 [PATCH] crypto: serpent - add x86_64/avx assembler implementation Johannes Goetzfried
2012-05-28 6:37 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-05-28 14:10 ` Johannes Goetzfried
2012-05-28 21:33 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-05-30 2:27 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 7:30 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-05-30 11:32 ` Johannes Goetzfried
2012-05-30 15:39 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 17:36 ` Johannes Goetzfried
2012-05-30 18:53 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-06-09 14:50 ` [PATCH] crypto: aes - make assembler implementation default for i386 and x86-64 Jussi Kivilinna
2012-06-12 8:26 ` Herbert Xu
2012-06-12 18:25 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-06-18 9:02 ` Herbert Xu
2012-06-20 11:49 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-05-30 21:29 ` [PATCH] crypto: serpent - add x86_64/avx assembler implementation Herbert Xu
2012-05-30 21:40 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 21:44 ` Herbert Xu
2012-05-30 21:55 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-05-30 22:34 ` Herbert Xu
2012-05-30 11:36 ` Johannes Goetzfried
2012-05-30 16:26 ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-30 17:49 ` Johannes Goetzfried
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2012-05-28 14:12 Johannes Goetzfried
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