Re: Adding opencrypto, crypto acceelerator to GENERIC kernels?

[ port-i386 and tech-kern trimmed, tech-userlevel on bcc, thread moved 
to tech-crypto ]

On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:07 PM, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Below is the patch I posted to tech-crypto in August.  I know Jason
> has tried it; last call for feedback before I commit this, too...
> Please send me an explicit cc: with any feedback.

After thinking about this a little bit, I think I would like for the 
libcrypto stuff to only use /dev/crypto if acceleration hw is available 
for the requested algorithm.

This is because using the kernel for the sw crypto is a neat little way 
for things like ssh to cause a kernel thread that will not be preempted 
to suck up a lot of CPU time.  I'm not sure I like that very much.

Is this pretty easy to handle in the OpenSSL "engine" support?

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <[email protected]>