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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:10:19 +0000
From: "Sridhar, Kanchana P" <kanchana.p.sridhar@...el.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v1 01/13] crypto: acomp - Add a poll() operation to
 acomp_alg and acomp_req


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 5:20 PM
> To: Sridhar, Kanchana P <kanchana.p.sridhar@...el.com>
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> Feghali, Wajdi K <wajdi.k.feghali@...el.com>; Gopal, Vinodh
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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/13] crypto: acomp - Add a poll() operation to
> acomp_alg and acomp_req
> 
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 11:01:10PM +0000, Sridhar, Kanchana P wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your code review comments. Are you referring to how the
> > async/poll interface is enabled at the level of say zswap (by setting a
> > flag in the acomp_req), followed by the iaa_crypto driver testing for
> > the flag and submitting the request and returning -EINPROGRESS.
> > Wouldn't we still need a separate API to do the polling?
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what you want to do is this:
> 
> 	crypto_acomp_compress(req)
> 	crypto_acomp_poll(req)
> 
> So instead of adding this interface, where the poll essentially
> turns the request synchronous, just move this logic into the driver,
> based on a flag bit in req.

Thanks Herbert, for this suggestion. I understand this better now,
and will work with Kristen for addressing this in v2.

Thanks,
Kanchana

> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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