From: Iuliana Prodan <iuliana.prodan@nxp.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>,
Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@nxp.com>,
Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@nxp.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Silvano Di Ninno <silvano.dininno@nxp.com>,
Franck Lenormand <franck.lenormand@nxp.com>,
"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] crypto: engine - support for parallel requests
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:08:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR0402MB3712DC09FC02FBE215006C5B8CF60@VI1PR0402MB3712.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20200317032924.GB18743@gondor.apana.org.au
On 3/17/2020 5:29 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:45:54PM +0000, Iuliana Prodan wrote:
>>
>> There are two aspects here:
>> - if all requests go through crypto-engine, and, in this case, if there
>> is no space in hw queue, do_one_req returns 0, and actually there will
>> be no case of do_one_request() < 0;
>
> OK, that makes sense. However, this way of signaling for more
> requests can be racy. Unless you can guarantee that the driver
> is not taking any requests from another engine queue (or any
> other source), just because it returned a positive value now does
> not mean that it would be able to take a request the next time
> you come around the loop.
>
This case can happen right now, also. I can't guarantee that all drivers
send all requests via crypto-engine.
This is the second aspect from my other mail. There are cases, when we
send requests (non crypto API) to hardware without passing to crypto-engine.
To solve this, I'm thinking of adding new patches that doesn't do
request dequeue from crypto-engine queue, just peek, and dequeues the
request after was successfully executed by hardware (if it has
MAY_BACKLOG flag, otherwise will dequeue it). What do you think?
Also, the above modification will imply changes in the drivers that use
crypto-engine.
Thanks,
Iulia
>> I've tried this, but it implies modifications in all drivers. For
>> example, a driver, in case of error, it frees the resources of the
>> request. So, will need to map again a request.
>
> I think what we are doing here is a major overhaul to the crypto
> engine API so while it's always a good idea to minimise the impact,
> we should not let the existing drivers constrain us too much.
>
> Thanks,
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-17 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-08 22:51 [PATCH v4 0/2] crypto: engine - support for parallel and batch requests Iuliana Prodan
2020-03-08 22:51 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] crypto: engine - support for parallel requests Iuliana Prodan
2020-03-12 3:25 ` Herbert Xu
2020-03-12 11:05 ` Horia Geantă
2020-03-17 3:22 ` Herbert Xu
2020-03-12 12:45 ` Iuliana Prodan
2020-03-12 12:52 ` Iuliana Prodan
2020-03-17 3:29 ` Herbert Xu
2020-03-17 13:08 ` Iuliana Prodan [this message]
2020-03-27 4:44 ` Herbert Xu
2020-03-27 10:44 ` Iuliana Prodan
2020-04-03 6:19 ` Herbert Xu
2020-03-08 22:51 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] crypto: engine - support for batch requests Iuliana Prodan
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