Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce bulk mode for crypto engine framework

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On 18 April 2016 at 16:41, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:40:36PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>
>> Simply to say, now there are many different hardware engines for
>> different vendors, some engines can support bulk block but some can
>> not (or no cipher hardware engine), then the dm-crypt can not know
>> your hardware engine features. If the dm-crypt send one bulk block to
>> low level, but the engine driver can not support bulk block, then it
>> will crash. So we did the merging action in driver level not dm-crypt
>> level.
>
> Surely we can handle it in the crypto API layer, just as we do GSO
> in the network stack for drivers that can't handle TSO?

Yes, it is similar. Thanks.

>
> Cheers,
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