Re: [patch/RFC]: Asynchronous IPsec processing.

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:18:22PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> It can be compile option - those people who wants asynchronous crypto
> processing and has appropriate hardware will benefit from that even
> if theirs general purpose CPU is VIA with PadLock ACE.

Well if there were no better options then we'll have to do that.

However, I believe that with the right crypto API we should be
able to have async crypto support without sacrificing synchronous
performance.

> It looks like several CPUs can not be used for synchronous crypto
> processing in current IPsec implementation. Using asynchronous

That's just an implementation quirk.  I will be addressing that
soon as part of the xfrm locking clean-up.

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