From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: AF_ALG AIO - lock context IV
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:15:48 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2018, 11:06:30 CET schrieb Gilad Ben-Yossef:

Hi Gilad,

> 2. Pointing out that the problem solved (and rightfully so) by mutex in
> AF_ALG AIO implementation must exists elsewhere as well - for example
> IPsec, and is probably solved there too, so if we add the flag as
> suggested, it can be used there as well to gain similar benefits to what
> Jonathan is suggesting.

You are quite right. this patch could speed up things for IPSec and the disk 
encryption logic too. So I think we should CC also the IPSec folks and the 
disk crypto folks to review the patch.

Ciao
Stephan