netdev - Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:12:16 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Ming Liu <ming.liu@...driver.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<ying.xue@...driver.com>, <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel - avoid IPsec re-ordering

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:41:38AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> >
> > Can't we just use cryptd unconditionally to fix this reordering problem?
> 
> I think the idea is that most of the time cryptd isn't required
> so we want to stick with direct processing to lower latency.

Yes, I thought that. But is it really the case that doing it
asynchronous increases the latency? I tried this some time
ago and as far as I remember there was not too much difference
between the direct and the asynchronous case. Might depend
on the usecase of course.

> 
> I think the simplest fix would be to punt to cryptd as long as
> there are cryptd requests queued.

This would be the second option. We may need to adjust the
maximum cryptd queue lenght then, as the networking receive
softirq might enqueue a lot of packets before cryptd can
process them.

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