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Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:25:25 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:54:16AM +0000, Dey, Megha wrote:
>
> Yeah I think I misunderstood. I think what you mean is to remove mcryptd.c completely and avoid the extra layer of indirection to call the underlying algorithm, instead call it directly, correct?
> 
> So currently we have 3 algorithms registered for every multibuffer algorithm:
> name         : __sha1-mb
> driver       : mcryptd(__intel_sha1-mb)
> 
> name         : sha1
> driver       : sha1_mb
> 
> name         : __sha1-mb
> driver       : __intel_sha1-mb
> 
> If we remove mcryptd, then we will have just the 2?

It should be down to just one, i.e., the current inner algorithm.
It's doing all the scheduling work already so I don't really see
why it needs the wrappers around it.

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