[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce bulk mode for crypto engine framework

[Baolin Wang]

On 18 April 2016 at 15:04, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:02:51PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>
>> If the crypto hardware engine can support bulk data
>> encryption/decryption, so the engine driver can select bulk mode to
>> handle the requests. I think it is a totally driver things, not in
>> dmcrypt. The dmcrypt can not get the hardware engine's attributes.
>
> It has nothing to do with the hardware attributes.  dm-crypt should
> be sending maximal requests in the first place.

I don't think so, the dm-crypt can not send maximal requests at some
situations. For example, the 'cbc(aes)' cipher, it must be handled
sector by sector (IV is dependency for each sector), so the dm-crypt
can not send maximal requests, but must sector by sector in this
situation.

>
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