Re: [md-accel PATCH 03/19] xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Jun 27 2007 - 12:22:50 EST


On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:13:21AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> The hope is that other subsystems beyond md could benefit from offload
> engines. For example, the crc32c calculations in btrfs might be a
> good candidate, and kcopyd integration has crossed my mind.

Yes hopefully we will actually integrate this into the crypto API
(as an async operation) at some point so having them in crypto/
does make sense.

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