From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752471AbYIXEyy (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:54:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751345AbYIXEym (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:54:42 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:50973 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751318AbYIXEyl (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:54:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:54:04 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Ilpo =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4rvinen?= Cc: David Miller , dwalker@mvista.com, arjan@infradead.org, LKML , Netdev , jens.axboe@oracle.com, steffen.klassert@secunet.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2]: Remote softirq invocation infrastructure. Message-ID: <20080924045404.GA6010@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20080920.125949.193703969.davem@davemloft.net> <20080920.235727.247411045.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:36:24PM +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Herbert Xu > > 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, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt