Re: cgd and opencrypto

On Oct 12, 2004, at 2:27 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote:

> There have been some discussions about it.  At present, there is no
> implementation of these discussions.  There are some intricacies and
> some restructuring of cgd required to take advantage of hw crypto, in
> particular it needs to grow a means to asynchronously schedule
> encryption and decryption, and probably a kernel thread context to
> facilitate this.  These changes would bring a few other benefits as
> well, but the current simplicity of cgd is also a desirable feature.

It's not clear that it would even be faster.  cgd encrypts one sector 
at a time, and that is going to translate into a lot of setup overhead 
for a crypto accelerator card.

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