[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/2] md: dm-verity: aggregate crypto API calls

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:41 PM, Yael Chemla <yael.chemla at foss.arm.com> wrote:
>  Current implementation makes multiple crypto API calls per block
>  implementation makes multiple crypto API calls per single block,
>  forcing underlying crypto tfm implementation to "stop & go",
>  leading to under utilization of HW engines.
>  To fix it unify calls to crypto init/update/final into a digest call
>  with a single sg which contains multiple buffers.
>  This is also needed as an enabler for the next patch in the series.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Yael Chemla <yael.chemla at foss.arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 220 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 127 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)



Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad at benyossef.com>



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