Hi Stephan, On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Stephan Müller <smuel...@chronox.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2017, 20:34:54 CEST schrieb Abed Kamaluddin: > > May I propose that you look into the patches for skcipher and aead regarding > memory handling updates that are currently discussed. There you will find the > sendmsg code with two parts: > > 1. checking of the input data of cmsg and setting the ctx respectively. > > 2. the big while loop for getting all user space data > > I guess you have seen that I would like to consolidate the algif > implementations once the memory handling patch is in and agreed on. My plan > is: Bullet 1 will be private to the algif implementation, so leave your code. > Bullet 2 will be moved into a common service function. Thus, may I propose > that you simply copy the entire while loop with the same TX data structures > into your sendmsg code. This way you do not have the mentioned limit. > > Also, simply copy the sendpage code from the patch set to support splice/ > vmsplice. >
Thanks for the suggestions and helpful pointers, I will rework the patch and incorporate these, hoping that the compression interface will be exported. These changes would also remain unaffected by any changes to the acomp interface. Thanks Abed (Cavium) Regards,
