Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] virtio-crypto: introduce framework and device emulation

[Gonglei (Arei)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> On Behalf Of Stefan Hajnoczi
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 6:13 PM
> Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] virtio-crypto: introduce framework
> and device emulation
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:25:39PM +0800, Gonglei wrote:
> > The virtio crypto is a virtual crypto device as well as a kind
> > of virtual hardware accelerator for virtual machines. The
> > encryption and decryption requests are placed in the data
> > queue and handled by the real crypto accelerators finally.
> > The second queue is the control queue used to create or
> > destroy sessions for symmetric algorithms and control
> > some advanced features in the future. The virtio crypto
> > device provides the following crypto services: CIPHER,
> > MAC, HASH, AEAD etc.
> 
> Please look at my reply to the virtio-crypto spec email thread.  Changes
> to the request layout are necessary (dropping custom scatter-gather I/O,
> avoiding assumptions about iovec layout, ordering of
> device-readable/writable buffers).
> 
> This will change the code quite a bit so I won't review further for now.
> 
> Stefan

OK, thank you very much for your comments, Stefan.
I'll fix the spec and corresponding code ASAP.

Regards,
-Gonglei