On 5 May 2011 17:57, Steve McIntyre <steve.mcint...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Technically it *can*, but you'll then have to be responsible for
> dealing with all the extra register save/restores for context
> switches. Normal wisdom is that it's just not worth that cost unless
> you're doing an extended amount of such code (e.g. RAID block
> checksums using Neon).

I've always thought that all the crypto stuff in the kernel just *begs* to be
vectorized -and should be, IMHO. But that's a lot of work, admittedly.

Konstantinos

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