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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryptioin infrastructure
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:06:33 +0800
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 03:21:03PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> 
> c) Add support to crypto scatterwalk support that can sleep during
> encryption operation, as we may have buffers for jobs in data lanes
> that are half-finished, waiting for additional jobs to come to fill
> empty lanes before we start the encryption again.  Therefore, we need to
> enhance crypto walk with the option to map data buffers non-atomically.
> This is done by algorithms run from crypto daemon who knows it is safe
> to do so as it can save and restore FPU state in correct context.

What about the existing ablkcipher scatterwalk helpers?

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