[crypto-discuss] Re: [intel-platform-discuss] Intel Platform optimised software crypto algorithms

[Dan Mick]

Bill Holler wrote:

> There would probably need to be some new API the kernel thread
> would have to invoke before using SSE to let the kernel know the
> thread needs its SSE state saved.  We don't want to slow down
> all kernel threads with SSE state saving as most of them will
> not use this.  There may also be an API to indicate when a
> kernel thread is done using SSE state, so its SSE state is no
> longer saved (for performance). 

sounds like a job for thread context ops....