Re: [PATCH] crypto: serpent - add x86_64/avx assemblerimplementation

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:40:06PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > What we could do is to use the cpuid-based probing when an algorithm
> > is needed to selectively load the relevant implementations instead
> > of all of them.  However, for most algorithms it won't make that
> > big a difference since all the available ones will be loaded anyway.
> 
> Yes cpuid probing does that.

I was under the impression that using cpuid meant that the algorithm
would be loaded regardless of whether it has been requested, as long
as the cpuid matches.

If that's not the case then there is certainly no reason to not use
cpuid-based loading.

Thanks,
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