On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:17:05PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > Now some cipher hardware engines prefer to handle bulk block rather than one > sector (512 bytes) created by dm-crypt, cause these cipher engines can handle > the intermediate values (IV) by themselves in one bulk block. This means we > can increase the size of the request by merging request rather than always 512 > bytes and thus increase the hardware engine processing speed. > > So introduce 'CRYPTO_ALG_BULK' flag to indicate this cipher can support bulk > mode. > > Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Nack. As I said before, please do it using explicit IV generators like we do for IPsec. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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
