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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:33:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada7isb3qr2.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0704170914h3a766236t47bc7e1c8de67662@mail.gmail.com> (Francis Moreau's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:14:58 +0200")

 > > I wonder if there's some way you can cache the last caller and reload
 > > the key lazily (only when it changes).
 > 
 > yes something that allows crypto drivers to detect if the key has
 > changed would be good.

It seems trivial to keep the last key you were given and do a quick
memcmp in your setkey method to see if it's different from the last
key you pushed to hardware, and set a flag if it is.  Then only do
your set_key() if you have a new key to pass to hardware.

I'm assuming the expense is in the aes_write() calls, and you could
avoid them if you know you're not writing something new.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <38b2ab8a0704130630v4c840bd1w19f2a239f86a93b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-14  4:30 ` [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ? Herbert Xu
2007-04-14 13:15   ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-14 19:34     ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-14 19:44       ` Michael Halcrow
2007-04-15 11:06         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-15 14:31           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-15 15:31             ` Michael Halcrow
2007-04-15 16:10               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-14 21:10       ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-15  7:52         ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-16  8:37           ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17  0:41             ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-17 12:36               ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 13:04                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-17 13:42                   ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-17 14:01                     ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 15:08                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-17 15:34                         ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 15:57                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-17 16:18                             ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 17:07                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-04-17 13:57                   ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 13:40                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-17 13:59                   ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 14:02                     ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-17 14:41                       ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 15:40                         ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-17 16:14                           ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 16:33                             ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-04-17 17:24                               ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-17 17:34                                 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-19  8:07                                   ` Francis Moreau
2007-04-23 13:56                                     ` Francis Moreau

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