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Re: [PATCH] crypto: tcrypt: don't disable irqs and wait

From Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] crypto: tcrypt: don't disable irqs and wait
Date 2017-05-18 07:30 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:25:40AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> The tcrypt AEAD cycles speed tests disables irqs during the test, which is
> broken at the very least since commit
> '1425d2d17f7309c6 ("crypto: tcrypt - Fix AEAD speed tests")'
> adds a wait for completion as part of the test and probably since
> switching to the new AEAD API.
> 
> While the result of taking a cycle count diff may not mean much on SMP
> systems if the task migrates, it's good enough for tcrypt being the quick
> & dirty dev tool it is. It's also what all the other (i.e. hash) cycle
> speed tests do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
> Reported-by: Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@arm.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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Re: [PATCH] crypto: tcrypt: don't disable irqs and wait Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2017-05-18 07:30 +0200

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