18 Apr, 2014

1 commit

  • Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     

04 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • Replace PTR_ERR followed by ERR_PTR by ERR_CAST, to be more concise.

    The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
    (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

    //
    @@
    expression err,x;
    @@
    - err = PTR_ERR(x);
    if (IS_ERR(x))
    - return ERR_PTR(err);
    + return ERR_CAST(x);
    //

    Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Julia Lawall
     

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11 Jan, 2008

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  • This patch makes chainiv avoid spinning by postponing requests on lock
    contention if the user allows the use of asynchronous algorithms. If
    a synchronous algorithm is requested then we behave as before.

    This should improve IPsec performance on SMP when two CPUs attempt to
    transmit over the same SA. Currently one of them will spin doing nothing
    waiting for the other CPU to finish its encryption. This patch makes it
    postpone the request and get on with other work.

    If only one CPU is transmitting for a given SA, then we will process
    the request synchronously as before.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu
     
  • The chain IV generator is the one we've been using in the IPsec stack.
    It simply starts out with a random IV, then uses the last block of each
    encrypted packet's cipher text as the IV for the next packet.

    It can only be used by synchronous ciphers since we have to make sure
    that we don't start the encryption of the next packet until the last
    one has completed.

    It does have the advantage of using very little CPU time since it doesn't
    have to generate anything at all.

    Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

    Herbert Xu