Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:09:47PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> So you want to use this area as a sort-of temporary
> scratch pad for something other than scatterlist
> information?  That's interesting if so...

There are two possibilities:

1) We use it directly as a scratch buffer for now since the
frags are always linearised currently.

2) We have a list of lists of which this is simply a member.
The meta-list itself can then be stored on the stack since
each member is only 4 bytes.

We can go with 1) for now.  When it becomes possible for us
to not flatten the frags, we can switch to 2).

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