Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:57504 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S941212AbcJSP7N (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: <5807984D.4050307@candelatech.com> (sfid-20161019_180449_714807_2C667D2A) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:59:09 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ard Biesheuvel , Johannes Berg CC: Herbert Xu , Andy Lutomirski , Sergey Senozhatsky , "" , "David S. Miller" , "" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jouni Malinen Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccm - avoid scatterlist for MAC encryption References: <1476551776-8099-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <1476689310.19992.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> <20161019033157.GA1457@gondor.apana.org.au> <1476862995.5927.3.camel@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/19/2016 08:08 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 19 October 2016 at 08:43, Johannes Berg wrote: >> On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:31 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: >> We could probably make mac80211 do that too, but can we guarantee in- >> order processing? Anyway, it's pretty low priority, maybe never >> happening, since hardly anyone really uses "software" crypto, the wifi >> devices mostly have it built in anyway. >> > > Indeed. The code is now correct in terms of API requirements, so let's > just wait for someone to complain about any performance regressions. Do you actually expect performance regressions? I'll be complaining if so, but will test first :) Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com