Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:39:41AM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> > So this is really a sort of bio_vec for crypto structures.  The objective
> > here is to make the structure as compact as possible to allow users to
> > allocate it on the stack most of the time.
> 
> Seems like a good idea to me.

Thanks James.  What do you think about eating up 32 bytes on the
stack in esp_input/esp_output?

In fact, how did we come up with the number of four frags? Why wouldn't
say two frags do for most users or perhaps even one?

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