crypto: x86/chacha - yield the FPU occasionally
To improve responsiveness, yield the FPU (temporarily re-enabling preemption) every 4 KiB encrypted/decrypted, rather than keeping preemption disabled during the entire encryption/decryption operation. Alternatively we could do this for every skcipher_walk step, but steps may be small in some cases, and yielding the FPU is expensive on x86. Suggested-by: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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