On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:23:59PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > > Assuming one 64K size bio coming, we can map the whole bio with one sg > table in crypt_convert_bulk_block() function. But if we send this bulk > request to crypto layer, we should divide the bulk request into small > requests, and each small request should be one sector size (512 bytes) > with assuming the correct IV, but we need to allocate small requests > memory for the division, which will not good for IO mapping, and how > each small request connect to dm-crypt (how to notify the request is > done?)? Why won't it be good? The actual AES block size is 16 and yet we have no trouble when you feed it a block of 512 bytes. 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
