On 15-12-28 09:42:22, Mimi Zohar wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 16:29 +0200, Petko Manolov wrote: > > > > I kind of wonder isn't it possible to optimize the file read? If the file > > is relatively small (a few megabytes, for example) it will fit into any > > modern system's memory. At least those that cares to run IMA, i mean. > > > > Fetching file page by page is a slow process even though the BIO subsystem > > reads larger chunks off the real storage devices. Has anyone done a > > benchmark test? > > Dmitry recently added asynchronous hash (ahash) support, which allows HW > crypto acceleration, for calculating the file hash. This is nice. However, i was referring to reading a file page by page vs larger (a couple of megabytes) chunks. Is this also covered by the ahash support? cheers, Petko
