Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce bulk mode for crypto engine framework

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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:47:58PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Now some cipher hardware engines prefer to handle bulk block by merging requests
> to increase the block size and thus increase the hardware engine processing speed.
> 
> This patchset introduces request bulk mode to help the crypto hardware drivers
> improve in efficiency.

Could you please explain why this merging can't be done in dm-crypt
instead?

Thanks,
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