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Message-ID: <YqxAEID8lu497CCe@silpixa00400314>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:49:20 +0100
From: Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@...el.com>
To: Yoan Picchi <yoan.picchi@....com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, qat-linux@...el.com,
linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Crypto: Remove x86 dependency on QAT drivers
Hi Yoan,
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:25:33PM +0000, Yoan Picchi wrote:
> The QAT acceleration card can be very helpfull for some tasks like dealing
> with IPSEC but it is currently restricted to be used only on x86 machine.
> Looking at the code we didn't see any reasons why those drivers might not
> work on other architectures. We've successfully built all of them on x86,
> arm64, arm32, mips64, powerpc64, riscv64 and sparc64.
>
> We also have tested the driver with an Intel Corporation C62x Chipset
> QuickAssist Technology (rev 04) PCIe card on an arm64 server. After the numa
> patch, it works with the AF_ALG crypto userland interface, allowing us to
> encrypt some data with cbc for instance. We've also successfully created some
> VF, bound them to DPDK, and used the card this way, thus showing some real
> life usecases of x86 do work on arm64 too.
>
> Changelog v1 ... v2:
> - add COMPILE_TEST to Kconfig
>
> Andre Przywara (1):
> crypto: qat: replace get_current_node() with numa_node_id()
>
> Yoan Picchi (1):
> Removes the x86 dependency on the QAT drivers
Would you mind re-sending the set changing the headline of the commit
messages as reported in the previous email?
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg64584.html
Thanks,
--
Giovanni
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