Hi Cristian, On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 02:06:49PM +0000, Cristian Stoica wrote: > > I really have no idea where you're heading at with this. But without further > > context, it doesn't make any sense to me. If you have a functional > > enhancement up your sleeve, I suggest submitting that along with this > > change so I get an idea of what this is all about. > > > > Of course, these patches have some context. > > I'm playing with the code to speed up hashing operations. > For now I want to see if there is a simple design that will make better use > of the Linux Crypto API which has both > 'init-update-final' and 'digest' operations. > One objective is to have less ioctl calls and avoid unnecessary init-updates > where a single digest will do.
Ah, this explains things a bit. > Currently I have a CIOCHASH ioctl that is identical to CIOCCRYPT but only for > hashing. In the current form it is faster for my test cases but needs some > clarifications on API. > > I can send some code to discuss design ideas if you are interested. Sure, just send them as RFC to the list and we'll figure things out together. :) Thanks, Phil _______________________________________________ Cryptodev-linux-devel mailing list Cryptodev-linux-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/cryptodev-linux-devel
