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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, jmorris@redhat.com,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:36:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050606.153602.23015220.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050604103249.GA1378@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:32:49 +1000

> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:29:39PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > 
> > But without sg we sill save 4*sizeof(dma addr) - is it really a price?
> 
> We're also reducing the offset/length to 16 bits from 32 bits so we're
> shaving off half the size.

Note, it is still going to be a 16 byte structure on 64-bit
machines.  This is mainly due to the 8-byte alignment needed
by the page pointer.

I'm not objecting to your ideas, just mentioning this fact...

I am also puzzled as to where the "4" came from :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-06 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-03 23:46 [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag Herbert Xu
2005-06-04  0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-04  0:42   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04  4:39     ` James Morris
2005-06-04  4:51       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04  5:23         ` James Morris
2005-06-04  5:33           ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:00     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04  9:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04  9:58   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:17     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04 10:22       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:29         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-04 10:32           ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 10:40             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-06-06 22:36             ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-06-04 11:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-04 11:26   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 11:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-06 11:59       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 12:09         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-06 12:40           ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 13:30             ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-06 22:46             ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:04               ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 23:09                 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:14                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 23:18                     ` David S. Miller
2005-06-06 23:20                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-06 23:05               ` Jeff Garzik

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