Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as the default dma pad mask

Herbert Xu
2008-05-21T13:19:06Z

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:55:15PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
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> > crypto hardware, it may be fine to use ALIGN_PTR for the hardware.
>
> I still wonder it's acceptable or not.

Normally I would say yes. But because the context poitner is
used on the most performance-critical path of the crypto API,
I'd rather not use it unless necessary.

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