On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 03:21:16PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > > 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. If you can't merge them as requests, then how is the hardware going to benefit from batching them? Or are you talking about parallel processing similar to sha-mb? Even with batching we should be involving the user because only the user knows (if anyone does) whether more data will be forthcoming. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel