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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] crypto: SHA1 multibuffer crypto hash
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:26:05 +0200
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Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:09:32PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> This patch introduces the multi-buffer crypto daemon which is responsible
> for submitting crypto jobs in a work queue to the responsible multi-buffer
> crypto algorithm.  The idea of the multi-buffer algorihtm is to put
> data streams from multiple jobs in a wide (AVX2) register and then
> take advantage of SIMD instructions to do crypto computation on several
> buffers simultaneously.
> 
> The multi-buffer crypto daemon is also responsbile for flushing the
> remaining buffers to complete the computation if no new buffers arrive
> for a while.

How is any of this SHA1 specific as the Subject says it is?