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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	dwalker@mvista.com, arjan@infradead.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com, steffen.klassert@secunet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure.
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:54:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080924045404.GA6010@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809221329140.1034@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:36:24PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:05:45 +0900
> > 
> > > Of course, we need to balance any effort spent on this with the
> > > likelihood that hardware improvements will soon make this obsolete
> > > (for IPsec anyway).
> > 
> > True, but old hardware will always exist.
> 
> ...Also, producing buggy hardware will not suddently just vanish either 
> ("can you please turn of ipsec offloading and see if you can still
> reproduce" :-))...

That's fine.  If your AES hardware is buggy you just fall back
to using the software version.

In fact if this was done through the crypto API it would even
happen automatically.

Cheers,
-- 
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Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-24  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-20  6:48 David Miller
2008-09-20 15:29 ` Daniel Walker
2008-09-20 15:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-20 16:02     ` Daniel Walker
2008-09-20 16:19       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-20 17:40         ` Daniel Walker
2008-09-20 18:09           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-20 18:52             ` Daniel Walker
2008-09-20 20:04               ` David Miller
2008-09-20 19:59           ` David Miller
2008-09-21  6:05             ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-21  6:57               ` David Miller
2008-09-22 10:36                 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-09-24  4:54                   ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2008-09-21  9:13               ` James Courtier-Dutton
2008-09-21  9:17                 ` David Miller
2008-09-21  9:46               ` Steffen Klassert
2008-09-22  8:23                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-09-22 13:54                   ` Steffen Klassert
2008-09-20 20:00       ` David Miller
2008-09-22 21:22 ` Chris Friesen
2008-09-22 22:12   ` David Miller
2008-09-23 17:03     ` Chris Friesen
2008-09-23 21:10       ` Tom Herbert
2008-09-23 21:51       ` David Miller
2008-09-24  7:42 ` David Miller

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