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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next prev parent 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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