From: Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, Jeff.Lien@wdc.com,
ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, david.darrington@wdc.com,
hch@infradead.org, jeff.furlong@wdc.com,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:30:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180904133006.GA28715@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180830150016.15661-1-martin.petersen@oracle.com>
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:00:14AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Introduce a facility that can be used to receive a notification
> callback when a new algorithm becomes available. This can be used by
> existing crypto registrations to trigger a switch from a software-only
> algorithm to a hardware-accelerated version.
While this is apparently fine with the patch set you sent, what about
cases where the crypto context of old and new implementation is not
100% compatible? The switch will still work for sure if there are no
current active users of the algo, but otherwise...? Just a thought.
Torsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-10 19:12 [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations Jeff Lien
2018-08-10 19:23 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-10 20:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2018-08-11 0:11 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-11 0:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2018-08-11 2:39 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-11 9:04 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-11 15:06 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-13 18:41 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-13 3:36 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-13 4:29 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-10 20:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2018-08-10 20:16 ` Eric Biggers
2018-08-16 14:02 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-16 14:22 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-16 15:41 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-08-16 17:38 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-17 3:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-16 15:47 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-08-10 20:56 ` Douglas Gilbert
2018-08-11 15:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-11 16:35 ` Joe Perches
2018-08-22 1:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-22 6:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-24 15:32 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-24 15:39 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-24 16:29 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-24 17:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-24 21:46 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-24 21:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-24 22:12 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-25 6:12 ` Herbert Xu
2018-08-26 2:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-27 6:13 ` Herbert Xu
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] crc-t10dif: Allow current transform to be inspected in sysfs Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 2:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] block: Integrity profile init function to trigger module loads Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 8:22 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-26 13:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-26 13:44 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-08-26 13:48 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-27 6:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms Herbert Xu
2018-08-30 14:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] crc-t10dif: Pick better transform if one becomes available Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-30 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] crc-t10dif: Allow current transform to be inspected in sysfs Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-31 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] crypto: Introduce notifier for new crypto algorithms Jeffrey Lien
2018-09-04 5:21 ` Herbert Xu
2018-09-04 13:30 ` Torsten Duwe [this message]
2018-08-24 16:30 ` [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations Martin K. Petersen
2018-08-13 4:44 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2018-08-13 11:45 ` David Laight
2018-08-13 13:50 ` David Laight
2018-08-13 22:44 ` Tim Chen
2018-08-15 12:51 ` Jeffrey Lien
2018-08-15 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
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