On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 02:40:56PM -0800, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > > Ok, It looks to me that we *do* have all we need to implement zero copy > and AIO with algif_skcipher. The only thing we need to do is to add > support for it in skcipher_recvmsg(). I think no change is required in > neither skcipher_sendmsg(), skcipher_sendpage(), nor the if_alg interface. > Then to start using the interface asynchronously an application will > need to call aio_read() or lio_listio() instead of read(), but if > someone will use read(), then it will still work in the same > (synchronous) way as it is today. > How does this sound to you, Herbert?
It sounds good but let's see the code first :) -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
