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Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:27:19 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] crypto: Implement cmac based on cbc skcipher
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 08:15:50AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:17:35AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >
> > Is there any easy way to use your work to make shash fast for aesni?  I
> > basically just want it to perform as well as it used to with my patch.
> 
> Yes.  We could add a sync version of aesni that simply falls back
> to aes-generic when simd is unavailable.

But I think before anyone attempts this we should explore making
mac80211 async like IPsec.  Is there any fundamental reason why
that is not possible? Have the wireless people expressed any
objections to making this async before?

Cheers,
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