Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] crypto/compress: add asynchronous compression support

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:03:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 03:59:05PM +0800, Li, Weigang wrote:
> >
> > The acomp is also SG-based, while scomp only accepts flat buffer.
> 
> Right, but do we need a pointer-based scomp at all? IPComp would
> certainly be better off with an SG-based interface.  Any other
> users of compression are presumably dealing with large amounts
> of data where an SG interface would make more sense.
> 
> A pointer interface makes sense for shash because you may be hashing
> 16 bytes at a time.  Nobody sane is going to be compressing 16 bytes,
> or are they?

Note that I'm fine with keeping an scomp interface underneath
for those algorithms where the best way to handle SG input is
to linearise things.  But I would prefer that this interface is
not exposed to kernel users unless it is absolutely required.

Cheers,
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