netdev - Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/7] IPsec: convert to ahash

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:46:14 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/7] IPsec: convert to ahash

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:15:48PM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> Since the calls to the hash algorithms can now return asynchronous, I'd like
> to avoid multiple calls to the hash update functions. I'd rather like to do
> all the hashing with one call to crypto_ahash_digest(). As it is, this
> requires chaining of all the involved scatterlists. Since we still can't use
> sg_chain() to chain up the lists, I added an additional scatterlist entry to
> the scatterlist of the assoc data (esp) to be able to chain later in the
> crypto layer. To keep compatibility I set the termination bit at the first
> entry and remove it later in authenc. In fact to rely on this additional
> entry and just to remove the termintation bit later makes me a bit nervous
> and I'm not sure whether this is acceptable, so better ideas are very welcome.

My suggestion would be to optimise for the common case, where
assoc is a single-entry list.  So just put some space aside in
the request context for a two-entry sg list and copy the assoc
sg entry into it and chain it with the rest.

Cheers,
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