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From: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@nokia.com>
To: ext Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>
Cc: <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hash finup() issue
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:47:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3FD18F.2020905@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110125232917.GA14972@gondor.apana.org.au>

I am not talking about user space API at all.

I talk about kernel crypto API and kernel clients.

Please understand the following: when update() is called driver does not
know if it is last update or not...
That is essential.
If client code would always use update/finup then it is fine..
But original API and clients uses update/final...
That is why some way (flag) needed to tell if finup() will be used or not...

It gave up 20% performance improvement in some case because no extra
memcpy has been done...

If you think about other solution, please share...

Have a nice day,

- Dmitry


On 26/01/11 01:29, ext Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:44:47PM +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
>> What we have done in our system is introduced a new flag which is set to
>> request.
>> flags |= CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_USE_FINUP;
>> ahash_request_set_callback(req, flags,  tcrypt_complete, &tresult);
> We don't need a flag for this, we just need to optimise the
> user-interface code to actually use finup when MSG_MORE is not
> set.
>
> Cheers,

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25 13:44 hash finup() issue Dmitry Kasatkin
2011-01-25 23:29 ` Herbert Xu
2011-01-26  7:47   ` Dmitry Kasatkin [this message]
2011-01-26 23:32     ` Herbert Xu
2011-01-27  6:47       ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2011-01-27  7:18         ` Herbert Xu

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