Re: ahash vs. shash

2014-05-14 Thread Dmitry Kasatkin
On 14 May 2014 04:39, Herbert Xu wrote: > Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> ahash allows to use HW acceleration, but usually it comes at a cost of >> additional HW related configuration overhead, such as configuring hash >> module, DMA, etc. For that reason hashing small chucks of data is >> fa

Re: ahash vs. shash

2014-05-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: > Hi, > > ahash allows to use HW acceleration, but usually it comes at a cost of > additional HW related configuration overhead, such as configuring hash > module, DMA, etc. For that reason hashing small chucks of data is > faster doing it with shash (CPU) rather than HW ac

ahash vs. shash

2014-05-06 Thread Dmitry Kasatkin
Hi, ahash allows to use HW acceleration, but usually it comes at a cost of additional HW related configuration overhead, such as configuring hash module, DMA, etc. For that reason hashing small chucks of data is faster doing it with shash (CPU) rather than HW acceleration. I measured long time ag