Hi Herbert, On 7 June 2016 at 22:16, Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. OK. I would like to try your suggestion. Thanks. > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- Baolin.wang Best Regards -- 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
