On 4/17/07, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I wonder if there's some way you can cache the last caller and reload
> > the key lazily (only when it changes).
>
> yes something that allows crypto drivers to detect if the key has
> changed would be good.
It seems trivial to keep the last key you were given and do a quick
memcmp in your setkey method to see if it's different from the last
key you pushed to hardware, and set a flag if it is. Then only do
your set_key() if you have a new key to pass to hardware.
I'm assuming the expense is in the aes_write() calls, and you could
avoid them if you know you're not writing something new.
that's a wrong assumption. aes_write()/aes_read() are both used to
access to the controller and are slow (no cache involved).
thanks
--
Francis
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