[PATCH] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm

From	Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm
Date	2017-01-13 07:30 +0100
Message-ID	<sZ3x7-5Sp-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Some hardware accelerators (like intel aseni or the s390
cpacf functions) have lower priorities than virtio
crypto, and those drivers are faster than the same in
the host via virtio. So let's lower the priority of
virtio-crypto's algorithm, make it's higher than sofeware
implimentations but lower than the hardware ones.

Suggested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
---
 drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_algs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_algs.c b/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_algs.c
index 6f40a42..4de4740 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_algs.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/virtio/virtio_crypto_algs.c
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ void virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_finalize_req(
 static struct crypto_alg virtio_crypto_algs[] = { {
 	.cra_name = "cbc(aes)",
 	.cra_driver_name = "virtio_crypto_aes_cbc",
-	.cra_priority = 501,
+	.cra_priority = 150,
 	.cra_flags = CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_ABLKCIPHER | CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC,
 	.cra_blocksize = AES_BLOCK_SIZE,
 	.cra_ctxsize  = sizeof(struct virtio_crypto_ablkcipher_ctx),
-- 
1.8.3.1

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[PATCH] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com> - 2017-01-13 07:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> - 2017-01-13 09:30 +0100
    RE: [PATCH] virtio-crypto: adjust priority of algorithm "Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gonglei@huawei.com> - 2017-01-13 10:30 +0100

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