[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: switch dm-verity to async hash crypto API

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Hi Eric,


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:28 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3 at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> As for the patch, I haven't looked at it in detail, but I agree that if
> dm-verity is indeed operating on sufficiently large buffers in physically
> contiguous memory, then the ahash API would be better than the shash API.  Note,
> that it also could be useful look into supporting having multiple async requests
> issued and pending at the same time, similar to what dm-crypt does.

Thank you for the feedback Eric.

I just sent out a v2 with fixes based on Ondrej feedback.

Supporting multiple outstanding async requests is a great idea. I will
look into supporting it.

Thanks,
Gilad

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