This patchset will check if the cipher can support bulk mode, then dm-crypt will handle different ways to send requests to crypto layer according to cipher mode. Looking forward to any comments and suggestions. Thanks. Baolin Wang (3): block: Introduce blk_bio_map_sg() to map one bio crypto: Introduce CRYPTO_ALG_BULK flag md: dm-crypt: Introduce the bulk mode method when sending request block/blk-merge.c | 45 +++++++++++ drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/crypto/skcipher.h | 7 ++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 3 + include/linux/crypto.h | 6 ++ 5 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html