linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryptioin infrastructure support

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Message-ID: <20151118000748.GC13894@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:07:48 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S.Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@...onox.de>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli_7982@...oo.com>,
	Vinodh Gopal <vinodh.gopal@...el.com>,
	James Guilford <james.guilford@...el.com>,
	Wajdi Feghali <wajdi.k.feghali@...el.com>,
	Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@....fi>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] crypto: Multi-buffer encryptioin infrastructure
 support

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 02:59:29PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> Herbert, would you prefer me to use ablkcipher scatter walk instead,
> assuming the overhead of both walk are about the same?

Well since you are going to potentially sleep in the middle of
an operation I'd think ablkcipher is required, no?

Cheers,
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