netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] crypto: allow allocation of percpu crypto transforms

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 19:38:28 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	klassert@...hematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] crypto: allow allocation of percpu crypto
	transforms

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:19:43AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> 
> This patch adds functions to alloc/free crypto transforms
> as percpu data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>

I'd prefer to just have the user call crypto_alloc_tfm for each
CPU.  This is the slow path after all so we don't need to optimise
it that much.

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