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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Cc: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] Crypto kernel tls socket
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 06:50:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151124115040.GK30089@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tbfhcf3.fsf@stressinduktion.org>

On (11/24/15 12:20), Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> There are some crypto acclerators out there so that putting tls into the
> kernel would give a net benefit, because otherwise user space has to
> copy data into the kernel for device access and back to user space until
> it can finally be send out on the wire.
> 
> Since processors provide aesni and other crypto extensions as part of
> their instruction set architecture, this, of course, does not make sense
> any more.

BTW, that, exactly, was what happened to Solaris kssl. 

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-23 17:42 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Crypto kernel TLS socket Dave Watson
2015-11-23 17:42 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] Crypto support aesni rfc5288 Dave Watson
2015-11-24 10:30   ` Herbert Xu
2015-11-23 17:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] Crypto kernel tls socket Dave Watson
2015-11-23 19:27   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-11-23 21:43     ` Dave Watson
2015-11-23 21:59       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-11-24 10:34   ` Herbert Xu
2015-11-24 11:00     ` Stephan Mueller
2015-11-24 11:20       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2015-11-24 11:50         ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2015-11-24 11:54         ` Phil Sutter
2015-11-24 12:36           ` Stephan Mueller
2015-11-24 12:37         ` Stephan Mueller
2015-11-23 19:10 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Crypto kernel TLS socket Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-01-11 15:12 ` Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos

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