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From: "Li, Weigang" <weigang.li@intel.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>, <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto/compress: add asynchronous compression support
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:26:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A87F28.9050101@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160127080926.GA31516@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 1/27/2016 4:09 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:03:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:59:05PM +0800, Li, Weigang wrote:
>>>
>>> The acomp is also SG-based, while scomp only accepts flat buffer.
>>
>> Right, but do we need a pointer-based scomp at all? IPComp would
>> certainly be better off with an SG-based interface.  Any other
>> users of compression are presumably dealing with large amounts
>> of data where an SG interface would make more sense.
>>
>> A pointer interface makes sense for shash because you may be hashing
>> 16 bytes at a time.  Nobody sane is going to be compressing 16 bytes,
>> or are they?
>
> Note that I'm fine with keeping an scomp interface underneath
> for those algorithms where the best way to handle SG input is
> to linearise things.  But I would prefer that this interface is
> not exposed to kernel users unless it is absolutely required.
>
> Cheers,
>
Thanks for your comments, Herbert. I Agree, SG-list based compression 
API makes more sense. Maybe Joonsoo can comment on this.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-27  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26  8:15 [PATCH v2 00/10] Introduce new async/sync compression APIs Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] crypto/compress: remove unused pcomp interface Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-27 14:17   ` Herbert Xu
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] crypto: add algorithm type specific flag, CRYPTO_ALG_PRIVATE Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] crypto/compress: introduce sychronuous compression API Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto/compress: add asynchronous compression support Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-27  7:41   ` Herbert Xu
2016-01-27  7:59     ` Li, Weigang
2016-01-27  8:03       ` Herbert Xu
2016-01-27  8:09         ` Herbert Xu
2016-01-27  8:26           ` Li, Weigang [this message]
2016-01-28  3:19           ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-29 10:09             ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-01  2:11               ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-02-04  3:25                 ` Li, Weigang
2016-02-04  3:28                   ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-04  3:29                     ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-04  3:50                       ` Li, Weigang
2016-02-04 14:56                         ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-04  7:17                     ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-02-04 14:53                       ` Herbert Xu
2016-02-04 16:19                         ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] crypto/lzo: support new compression APIs Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] crypto/lz4: " Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] crypto/lz4hc: " Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] crypto/842: " Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] crypto/deflate: " Joonsoo Kim
2016-01-26  8:15 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] crypto/testmgr: add new compression APIs test Joonsoo Kim

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