linux-kernel - Re: [md-accel PATCH 03/19] xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async

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Message-ID: <20070627162231.GA14606@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:22:31 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [md-accel PATCH 03/19] xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:13:21AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> The hope is that other subsystems beyond md could benefit from offload
> engines.  For example, the crc32c calculations in btrfs might be a
> good candidate, and kcopyd integration has crossed my mind.

Yes hopefully we will actually integrate this into the crypto API
(as an async operation) at some point so having them in crypto/
does make sense.

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