On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

Many users of kernel async. crypto services have a pattern of
starting an async. crypto op and than using a completion
to wait for it to end.

This patch set simplifies this common use case in two ways:

First, by separating the return codes of the case where a
request is queued to a backlog due to the provider being
busy (-EBUSY) from the case the request has failed due
to the provider being busy and backlogging is not enabled
(-EAGAIN).

Next, this change is than built on to create a generic API
to wait for a async. crypto operation to complete.

The end result is a smaller code base and an API that is
easier to use and more difficult to get wrong.

The patch set was boot tested on x86_64 and arm64 which
at the very least tests the crypto users via testmgr and
tcrypt but I do note that I do not have access to some
of the HW whose drivers are modified nor do I claim I was
able to test all of the corner cases.

The patch set is based upon linux-next release tagged
next-20171013.

Has there been any performance impact analysis of these changes?  I
ended up with patches for one of the crypto drivers which converted
its interrupt handling to threaded interrupts being reverted because
it caused a performance degredation.

Moving code to latest APIs to simplify it is not always beneficial.

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