On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 07:58:40AM +0000, Leonid Ravich wrote: > * No throughput *win* is claimed for software AES. The win is for > accelerators that amortise setup across units; the software split > exists so the interface works on every existing skcipher today and > goes quiet as algorithms gain CRYPTO_ALG_REQ_SEG.
So what is the use case? So far all crypto driver we've seen have shown to be slower than cpu. Which one are you using that isn't? And if you have a genuinely useful one, should we have a proper interface to it that doesn't pay the scatterlist overhead to start with?
