Thread (54 messages) 54 messages, 7 authors, 2023-03-25

Re: [RFC PATCH 23/28] algif: Remove hash_sendpage*()

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2023-03-17 02:41:59
Also in: linux-crypto, linux-fsdevel, lkml

David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:
Remove hash_sendpage*() and use hash_sendmsg() as the latter seems to just
use the source pages directly anyway.
...
-       if (!(flags & MSG_MORE)) {
-               if (ctx->more)
-                       err = crypto_ahash_finup(&ctx->req);
-               else
-                       err = crypto_ahash_digest(&ctx->req);
You've just removed the optimised path from user-space to
finup/digest.  You need to add them back to sendmsg if you
want to eliminate sendpage.

Cheers,
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