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From: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] crypto: algif - change algif_skcipher to be
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:04:49 +0000
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On 03/06/2015 11:44 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Are these separate caches really necessary? It looks like an
> overkill.  What's wrong with just kmalloc?

Hi Herbert,
It helps to make it faster.
This way I can do some of the request setup beforehand and minimize overhead on the data path.
Thanks,
Tadeusz