netdev - Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel

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Message-ID: <20141112085148.GA26268@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:51:48 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	Ming Liu <ming.liu@...driver.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	ying.xue@...driver.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel - avoid IPsec re-ordering

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:41:38AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> Can't we just use cryptd unconditionally to fix this reordering problem?

I think the idea is that most of the time cryptd isn't required
so we want to stick with direct processing to lower latency.

I think the simplest fix would be to punt to cryptd as long as
there are cryptd requests queued.

Cheers,
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