Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccm - avoid scatterlist for MAC encryption

[Ben Greear]

On 10/19/2016 08:08 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 19 October 2016 at 08:43, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:31 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:

> > We could probably make mac80211 do that too, but can we guarantee in-
> > order processing? Anyway, it's pretty low priority, maybe never
> > happening, since hardly anyone really uses "software" crypto, the wifi
> > devices mostly have it built in anyway.
>
> Indeed. The code is now correct in terms of API requirements, so let's
> just wait for someone to complain about any performance regressions.

Do you actually expect performance regressions?  I'll be complaining if
so, but will test first :)

Thanks,
Ben

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