Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759920AbXF0QWt (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752279AbXF0QWk (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:40 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:2236 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218AbXF0QWj (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:22:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:22:31 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Dan Williams Cc: Satyam Sharma , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [md-accel PATCH 03/19] xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx Message-ID: <20070627162231.GA14606@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20070627014823.18962.96398.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> <20070627015049.18962.54083.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 21 On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:13:21AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > The hope is that other subsystems beyond md could benefit from offload > engines. For example, the crc32c calculations in btrfs might be a > good candidate, and kcopyd integration has crossed my mind. Yes hopefully we will actually integrate this into the crypto API (as an async operation) at some point so having them in crypto/ does make sense. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/