linux-kernel - Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ?

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Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0704170918u72792c0ei591fea98eac2681d@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:18:42 +0200
From:	"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	"Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	helge.hafting@...el.hist.no, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CRYPTO] is it really optimized ?

On 4/17/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> wrote:
>
> If there are another users, then flag should not be set.

depends if there's a 'generic' algo that can be used at the same time.
Admin should know that.

> If there are no another users, your code already has exclusive access.

sorry I don't understand that.

> One can not know if there will be any additional users at all (consider
> the case when new encrypted block device or ipsec negotiation started
> some time after module was loaded).
>

well I should say administrator should know.

-- 
Francis
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