[PATCH V3 6/6] crypto/nx: Add P9 NX support for 842 compression engine

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Aug 30 07:57:17 AEST 2017


On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 14:54 -0700, Haren Myneni wrote:
> Opening send window for each crypto transform (crypto_alloc,
> compression/decompression, ..., crypto_free) so that does not have to
> wait for the previous copy/paste complete. VAS will map send and
> receive windows, and can cache in send windows (up to 128). So I
> thought using the same send window (per chip) for more requests (say
> 1000) may be adding overhead.
> 
> I will make changes if you prefer using 1 send window per chip.  

Did you check the cost of opening/closing a window ?

Cheers,
Ben.



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