Hi Herbert, On 8 February 2017 at 13:02, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> =============================================================================== >> dm-crypt optimization for larger block sizes >> =============================================================================== >> >> Currently, the iv generation algorithms are implemented in dm-crypt.c. The goal >> is to move these algorithms from the dm layer to the kernel crypto layer by >> implementing them as template ciphers so they can be used in relation with >> algorithms like aes, and with multiple modes like cbc, ecb etc. As part of this >> patchset, the iv-generation code is moved from the dm layer to the crypto layer >> and adapt the dm-layer to send a whole 'bio' (as defined in the block layer) >> at a time. Each bio contains the in memory representation of physically >> contiguous disk blocks. Since the bio itself may not be contiguous in main >> memory, the dm layer sets up a chained scatterlist of these blocks split into >> physically contiguous segments in memory so that DMA can be performed. > Ran Bonnie++ on it last night (Luks mode, plain64, Qemu Virt platform > Arm64) and it works just fine. > > Tested-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> I was wondering if this is near to be ready for submission (apart from the testmgr.c changes) or I need to make some changes to make it similar to the IPSec offload? Thanks, Binoy
