From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 10:59:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20150520145901.GI2871@thunk.org> References: <20150519054945.GA28060@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519062430.GA39588@jaegeuk-mac02.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20150519063211.GA28347@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519065812.GA40012@jaegeuk-mac02.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20150519065929.GA28610@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519071317.GB40012@jaegeuk-mac02.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20150519071521.GA28862@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519141430.GD20421@thunk.org> <20150519142755.GB32663@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150520072118.GN8928@secunet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Herbert Xu , Jaegeuk Kim , davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: Steffen Klassert Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150520072118.GN8928@secunet.com> Sender: ecryptfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-crypto.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:21:20AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > The current pcrypt version is used just for IPsec because it supports > only AEAD type algorithms and does not support request backlog. But > I have patches to support ablkcipher algorithms and request backlog. > I could provide them if there is interest in it. I don't know the crypto layer well enough, and I certainly don't know how to deal with things like ARM CPU's with "big-little" architectures to understand what we might need to do to power optimize things for mobile handsets. But if someone has time to look at this, that would be great. - Ted From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 10:59:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm In-Reply-To: <20150520072118.GN8928@secunet.com> References: <20150519054945.GA28060@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519062430.GA39588@jaegeuk-mac02.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20150519063211.GA28347@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519065812.GA40012@jaegeuk-mac02.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20150519065929.GA28610@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519071317.GB40012@jaegeuk-mac02.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> <20150519071521.GA28862@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150519141430.GD20421@thunk.org> <20150519142755.GB32663@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150520072118.GN8928@secunet.com> Message-ID: <20150520145901.GI2871@thunk.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:21:20AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > The current pcrypt version is used just for IPsec because it supports > only AEAD type algorithms and does not support request backlog. But > I have patches to support ablkcipher algorithms and request backlog. > I could provide them if there is interest in it. I don't know the crypto layer well enough, and I certainly don't know how to deal with things like ARM CPU's with "big-little" architectures to understand what we might need to do to power optimize things for mobile handsets. But if someone has time to look at this, that would be great. - Ted