From: Herbert Xu Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH v2 2/4] pcrypt: Add pcrypt crypto parallelization engine Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:31:29 +0800 Message-ID: <20090428063129.GA1776@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20090424102451.GB12680@secunet.com> <20090424102720.GD12680@secunet.com> <20090427085620.GB21761@gondor.apana.org.au> <20090428062316.GA20366@secunet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: David Miller , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Klassert Return-path: Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:52118 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755195AbZD1Gbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:31:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090428062316.GA20366@secunet.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:23:16AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > I don't need to exclude it. I just wanted to avoid another layer > of pcrypt here because it does not make too much sense to parallelize > a second time. If the aead algorithm is already parallel it would just > add overhead if we parallelize an underlying algorithm too. > Anyway, I would not mind to allow more than one pcrypt layer. I thought so. The system is certainly not going to automatically construct a second pcrypt algorithm once one exists. So I think we can just remove this bit. 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