Re: [PATCH] Using Intel CRC32 instruction to accelerate CRC32c algorithm by new crypto API.

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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>, Austin Zhang <austin_zhang@...>, <davem@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-crypto@...>
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 - 10:54 am

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:49:01PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

No you don't have to set things up every time you use crc32c.
The crypto interface lets you have a single tfm that can be
used by multiple users simultaneously.  For ahash algorithms
all the state is stored in the request which can stay on the
stack.

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