Re: [PATCH v8 0/7] Optimize dm-verity and fsverity using multibuffer hashing

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Feb 15 2025 - 21:27:30 EST


On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 09:04:12AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>
> Can confirm, FWIW. I don't know as much about IPsec, but for TLS
> lightweight SW-only crypto would be ideal.

Please note that while CPU-only crypto is the best for networking,
it actually operates in asynchronous mode on x86. This is because
RX occurs in softirq context, which may not be able to use SIMD on
x86.

Cheers,
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