Re: [PATCH 0/9] crypto: qce - refactor the driver

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Tue Dec 03 2024 - 15:56:22 EST


On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 6:35 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 10:19:28AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > This driver will soon be getting more features so show it some
> > refactoring love in the meantime. Switching to using a workqueue and
> > sleeping locks improves cryptsetup benchmark results for AES encryption.
>
> What is motivating this work? I thought this driver is useless because ARMv8 CE
> is an order of magnitude faster.
>

We'll be extending support for this IP with some additional features
soon like using device unique keys etc. This is just some refreshment
of this module.

Bartosz