linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm

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Message-ID: <20170113143742.GD26101@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:37:42 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Gonglei <arei.gonglei@...wei.com>
Cc:     virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mst@...hat.com, borntraeger@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:34:16PM +0800, Gonglei wrote:
> Some hardware accelerators (like intel aesni or the s390
> cpacf functions) have lower priorities than virtio
> crypto, and those drivers are faster than the same in
> the host via virtio. So let's lower the priority of
> virtio-crypto's algorithm, make it's higher than software
> implementations but lower than the hardware ones.
> 
> Suggested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@...wei.com>
> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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