On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:38:42PM -0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:19:02AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> >
> > The general x86 implementation is used as the fall back for new AES-NI
> > based implementation. Because AES-NI can not be used in kernel soft_irq
> > context. If crypto
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:21:06PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > a. Do not touch SSE state in soft_irq
> > b. Disable/restore soft_irq in kernel_fpu_begin/kernel_fpu_end
> > c. Use a per-CPU data structure to save kernel FPU state during
> > soft_irq.
> >
> > The mothod a is used in patch.
>
> C
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:07:45AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>
> You have to it if you want to bypass the crypto layer and call asm
> functions directly and I'm not sure whether bypassing the crypto layer
> is a good thing. Both asm routines (the 32bit and 64bit) assume that
> keylen
* Huang Ying | 2008-12-15 10:19:02 [+0800]:
>> Nice work. A few things:
>> - Did you rename the "old" x86 functions to avoid a clash?
>> So you bypass the crypto layer in case you can't handle the operation.
>> Does this improve the performace or just saves key strokes? Not sure
>> what the
