On 03/29/2013 10:12 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
>> Hello, >> The Linux-kernel maintainer rejected the /dev/crypto solution and has >> added similar - but incompatible - functionality in the mainline kernel. >> Check AF_ALG. There is comparison with it in cryptodev-linux pages. > Thanks for your reply and great work on the benchmark comparisons. > Could you explain why the performance is poor with AF_ALG for the NULL > cipher case? It has additional overhead imposed by the choice of its API. As far as I remember it goes through the networking API for no particular reason. >> If you check openssl several parts of this patch have been incorporated. >> The openssl team is pretty slow in including patches though and I plan >> to give up maintaining an updated version for them. > I guess from (2) you meant that the patch(es) have already been > expected. So now do you mean some patches are still pending? Yes. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ Cryptodev-linux-devel mailing list Cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/cryptodev-linux-devel
