Re: [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm

2015-05-20 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:30:14PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > However, it's quite a can of worms you're opening here. Speed is > easily quantified, and it may even be feasible to introduce some kind > of boottime benchmark to select the fastest implementation available > (like already exists

Re: [PATCH] crypto: allow to assign gfp_t for __crypto_alloc_tfm

2015-05-20 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 20 May 2015 at 16:59, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:21:20AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: >> The current pcrypt version is used just for IPsec because it supports >> only AEAD type algorithms and does not support request backlog. But >> I have patches to support ablkcipher