Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] Introduce new async/sync compression APIs

From: Li, Weigang
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 03:01:14 EST


On 1/4/2016 12:46 PM, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
Happy New Year!

This patchset is to introduce new compression APIs. It supports async/sync
compression although there is no async compression driver yet. But, async
APIs can be used as front-end to sync compression algorithm. Major change
is that now APIs are stateless. Instead of previous implementation, tfm
objects doesn't embedded any context so we can de/compress concurrently
with one tfm object. Instead, this de/compression context is coupled with
the request. This architecture change will make APIs more flexible.

This is just a RFC so commit description isn't sufficient. If Herbert
confirms that this is what he expect, I will respin the series with proper
commit description and adding more algorithm support.

Thanks.

Joonsoo Kim (6):
crypto/compress: remove unused pcomp interface
crypto/compress: introduce sychronuous compression API
crypto/lzo: support SCOMPRESS alg type
crypto: testmgr: add scompress/acompress test
crypto/compress: add algorithm type specific flag, DECOMP_NOCTX
crypto/lzo: add CRYPTO_ALG_SCOMPRESS_DECOMP_NOCTX cra_flags

Weigang Li (1):
crypto: add asynchronous compression support

crypto/Kconfig | 19 +-
crypto/Makefile | 4 +-
crypto/acompress.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++
crypto/lzo.c | 95 +++++++--
crypto/pcompress.c | 115 -----------
crypto/scompress.c | 283 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
crypto/testmgr.c | 376 +++++++++++++++---------------------
crypto/testmgr.h | 142 --------------
crypto/zlib.c | 381 -------------------------------------
include/crypto/compress.h | 354 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
include/crypto/internal/compress.h | 32 +---
include/linux/crypto.h | 10 +-
12 files changed, 969 insertions(+), 1006 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 crypto/acompress.c
delete mode 100644 crypto/pcompress.c
create mode 100644 crypto/scompress.c
delete mode 100644 crypto/zlib.c

Hello Herbert,
Any comments on this patchset?