Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:55:35PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> 
> processing code. And you can not easily move away of SA lock due to
> synchronous problems with the same tfm.

This is not true.  The tfm context contains no shared state apart
from the IV.  As the IV can be specified through the *_iv functions,
this allows crypto API users to process the same cipher tfm on two
CPUs in parallel.

If you don't believe me just wait for my upcoming patches to IPsec.
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