On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 08:26:51AM +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> What about to use a fallback algorithm that does not need to touch
> FPU/SIMD in such cases? We would not need cryptd at all and it would
> keep the requests in the right order because we don't defer them.

This would be bad for throughput since the fallback is many orders
of magnitude slower than aesni.

Cheers,
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