From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: "Longpeng (Mike)" <longpeng2@huawei.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
QEMU-DEV <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Wubin (H)" <wu.wubin@huawei.com>,
"Zhoujian (jay, Euler)" <jianjay.zhou@huawei.com>,
Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Question about add AF_ALG backend for virtio-crypto
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 16:25:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170109162504.GH29989@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170109134310.GE30228@stefanha-x1.localdomain>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:43:10PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 03:04:55PM +0800, Longpeng (Mike) wrote:
> > I'm one of Gonglei's virtio-crypto project members, and we plan to add a AF_ALG
> > backend for virtio-crypto(there's only builtin-backend currently).
> >
> > I found that Catalin, Paolo and Stefan had discussed about this in 2015
> > (http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg115457.html), but it seems that Catalin
> > didn't do it, so I'm confuse about wether it is need to add a AF_ALG backend.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestion? Thanks :)
>
> I have no objections to an AF_ALG backend in QEMU.
Rather than do another backend for virtio-crypto, IMHO, we should have
an AF_ALG impl of the crypto/ APIs. That way any potential performance
benefits will enhance our LUKS encryption code too.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-09 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-09 7:04 [Qemu-devel] Question about add AF_ALG backend for virtio-crypto Longpeng (Mike)
2017-01-09 13:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-01-09 16:25 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2017-01-10 9:03 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2017-01-10 10:03 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-01-10 11:36 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2017-01-10 12:03 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-01-10 12:17 ` Gonglei (Arei)
2017-01-10 13:30 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-02-08 10:46 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2017-02-08 10:53 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-02-09 2:58 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2017-02-09 10:11 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-02-09 11:03 ` Longpeng (Mike)
2017-02-09 11:22 ` Daniel P. Berrange
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