Re: [RFC 06/13] cifs: Add a function to Hash the contents of an iterator

Herbert Xu
2023-01-27T10:39:06Z

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:33:58AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> > Please convert this to ahash. The whole point of shash is to
> > process *small* amounts of data that is not on an SG list.
>
> Is ahash offloaded to another thread or hardware?

That's something you can control when you allocate the ahash
object? You could even restrict it to sync algorithms by setting
type to 0 and mask to CRYPTO_ALG_SYNC.

Cheers,
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