[PATCH v3 6/8] fsverity: improve performance by using multibuffer hashing

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 11:13:48PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>
> It can't be asynchronous, period.  As I've explained, that would be far too
> complex, and it would also defeat the purpose because it would make performance
> worse.  Messages *must* be queued up and hashed in the caller's context.

When I say ahash I don't necessarily mean async.  I'm just referring
to the SG-list based API that is known as ahash.  As this user
appears to be doing kmap, it would appear that ahash is a better
fit rather than shash.

Cheers,
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