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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:25:32 -0700 From: Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com> To: Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@....com> CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <borisp@...lanox.com>, <aviadye@...lanox.com>, <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/1] net/tls: Combined memory allocation for decryption request On 08/09/18 04:56 AM, Vakul Garg wrote: > For preparing decryption request, several memory chunks are required > (aead_req, sgin, sgout, iv, aad). For submitting the decrypt request to > an accelerator, it is required that the buffers which are read by the > accelerator must be dma-able and not come from stack. The buffers for > aad and iv can be separately kmalloced each, but it is inefficient. > This patch does a combined allocation for preparing decryption request > and then segments into aead_req || sgin || sgout || iv || aad. > > Signed-off-by: Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@....com> Reviewed-by: Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com> Thanks, looks good to me now.
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