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Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Replace scatterlist with crypto_frag
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:09:47 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:04:37 +1000

> Bigger is better actually :) I'm now thinking of using the
> memory occupied by the frags array for IPsec crypto operations.
> So if it's bigger then it simply means that we can store more
> fragments.

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...

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