Re: [RFC-v4 07/12] iscsi-target: Add CHAP Authentication supportusing libcrypto

From: Mike Christie
Date: Mon Mar 21 2011 - 21:05:38 EST


On 03/20/2011 04:31 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
+static struct iscsi_chap *chap_server_open(
+ struct iscsi_conn *conn,
+ struct iscsi_node_auth *auth,
+ const char *A_str,
+ char *AIC_str,
+ unsigned int *AIC_len)

Lot of mixed cases like this and below in the patch.



+
+static int chap_server_compute_md5(
+ struct iscsi_conn *conn,
+ struct iscsi_node_auth *auth,
+ char *NR_in_ptr,
+ char *NR_out_ptr,
+ unsigned int *NR_out_len)



+ return 2;
+}
diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.h b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17b042d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_auth.h



+
+struct iscsi_chap {
+ unsigned char digest_type;
+ unsigned char id;
+ unsigned char challenge[CHAP_CHALLENGE_LENGTH];
+ unsigned int challenge_len;
+ unsigned int authenticate_target;
+ unsigned int chap_state;
+} ____cacheline_aligned;
+

Why are almost all structs in the patches ____cacheline_aligned? Is it something we are just doing now, or does this affect performance somehow even though the struct is not used in a perf path?
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