[PATCH v1 0/3] SHA256 for PPC/SPE

[Herbert Xu]

Markus Stockhausen <stockhausen at collogia.de> wrote:
> 
> [PATCH v1 0/3] SHA256 for PPC/SPE
> 
> The following patches add support for SIMD accelerated SHA256 
> calculation on PPC processors with SPE instruction set. The 
> implementation takes care of the following constraints:
> 
> - independant of processor endianess
> - fallback to generic code if called from interrupt context
> - disable preemtion only for short intervals

Thanks for the patch! Unfortunately the interrupt context test
is a bummer because that means your code won't be used by IPsec
at all.

Would it be possible to relax the conditions similar to sha1_ssse3
on x86? If not how about going async with cryptd?

Cheers,
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