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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:37:01 +0200
From:	"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	helge.hafting@...el.hist.no, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ?

On 4/15/07, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:10:08PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >
> > ok but do you think it's safe to assume that no others parts of the
> > kernel will request "aes-foo" ? Remember that the main point is to
> > optimize "aes-foo" ?
>
> What they request is up to the administrator.
>

But do you think it's safe to design aes driver that could work only
with one kernel user and to rely on administrator config to verify
this condition ?

BTW, here are figures I got with 2 different versions of the driver
when using tcrypt module. The second being the result with the
optimized driver (no key reloading on each block):

normal version:
test 4 (128 bit key, 8192 byte blocks): 1 operation in 67991 cycles (8192 bytes)

optimized version:
test 4 (128 bit key, 8192 byte blocks): 1 operation in 51783 cycles (8192 bytes)

So the gain is 16000 cycles which seems to worth the change, isn't it ?

thanks
-- 
Francis
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