On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
are there any possible negative impact due to non-preemptiveness ofsoftware-based /dev/crypto operation? such as unfairness in scheduling,or whatever. especially public key crypto (D-H/RSA) operation could take a long time...
Yah, that's something to be concerned about. However, there is not software D-H/RSA in the kernel /dev/crypto stuff, so that's not so bad.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej%wasabisystems.com@localhost>