On Sat, 2016-10-22 at 21:15 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > It would be a great if mac80211 would do to the encryption and > decryption asynchronously. As this would work for other ciphers > and also allows crypto offload to dedicated crypto hardware.
The only problem with that is that we'd essentially need a software queue for *all* frames, and release them from there in RX order after decrypt. That's surely doable, but so far nobody has thought it important enough since mostly HW crypto is used ... johannes
