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Re: [PATCH] af_alg: disable kernel hash functions by default


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_alg: disable kernel hash functions by default
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 12:18:45 -0700
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On 24/06/18 02:24, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> All the kernel routines were seen to be significantly slower
> with these relatively recent components on an i3-2310M system:
>   kernel-4.10.6-200.fc25.x86_64
>   openssl-1.0.2m-1.fc25.x86_64
> sha1 was nearly twice as slow in the kernel for example.

Assaf Gordon has just detailed more reasons why af_alg
should not be enabled by default at:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2018-06/msg00034.html

I hope to push this later today.

cheers,
Pádraig.



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