Re: [PATCH 1/3] crypto: caam/qi2 - algorithm priority be a parameter

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 04:01:03PM +0200, Vincent Jardin via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@xxxxxxx>
> 
> dpaa2_caam registers every skcipher, aead and ahash at a fixed priority
> of 2000.
> 
> It is above the ARMv8 Crypto Extensions (200 to 300), so on any DPAA2 SoC,
> every in-kernel user of AES, SHA or GCM moves from the CPU to the SEC,
> whatever the request size.
> 
> Whether the SEC should be the default or only be reached by driver name
> depends on the system, and there is no way to choose/tune it.

You can easily change the priority from user-space through the
crypto_user interface.

So why not lower the default priority and let the user adjust
it if necessary?

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