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Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag
From: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 01:23:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20050604045119.GA25270@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:

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

Sounds like a low price to pay, given the general overhead of ipsec.

> 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?

I don't know where that came from.


- James
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