Re: [PATCH] crypto: aesni-intel - avoid IPsec re-ordering

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:46AM -0800, Raj Ammanur wrote:

RAJ: ok. would it also be useful to be able to set the length as a module
load time parameter?

That would be a bad interface.  If we wanted to have an adjustable
limit it needs to be set by the entity that is creating the tfm,
i.e., IPsec.
 

RAJ: hmm, thats true, yes.

so, is the below description, that you wrote in one of your email replies,
the solution for which you are going to create a patch?

quoted

So what I'm thinking of is to have the softirq path forcibly regain
control from cryptd where possible.  This is tricky because cryptd
might be in the middle of processing a request.  So that's why I'd
like to disable softirqs while we're processing a request.

Yes.

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