On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:43:10PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 03:04:55PM +0800, Longpeng (Mike) wrote: > > I'm one of Gonglei's virtio-crypto project members, and we plan to add a > > AF_ALG > > backend for virtio-crypto(there's only builtin-backend currently). > > > > I found that Catalin, Paolo and Stefan had discussed about this in 2015 > > (http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg115457.html), but it seems that Catalin > > didn't do it, so I'm confuse about wether it is need to add a AF_ALG > > backend. > > > > Do you have any suggestion? Thanks :) > > I have no objections to an AF_ALG backend in QEMU.
Rather than do another backend for virtio-crypto, IMHO, we should have an AF_ALG impl of the crypto/ APIs. That way any potential performance benefits will enhance our LUKS encryption code too. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|
