linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.

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Date:   Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:35:23 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Jeffrey Lien <Jeff.Lien@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-crypto\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-block\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-scsi\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tim.c.chen\@linux.intel.com" <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Darrington <david.darrington@....com>,
        Jeff Furlong <jeff.furlong@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.


Herbert,

> I don't think this is safe unless you do some kind of locking
> which would slow down the data path.  The easiest fix would be
> to keep the old tfm around forever, or use RCU if RCU read locking
> is acceptable to your use-case.

You're right. There's a small race there.

Patch series coming...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering