[CRYPTO] api: Add async blkcipher type
This patch adds the mid-level interface for asynchronous block ciphers.
It also includes a generic queueing mechanism that can be used by other
asynchronous crypto operations in future.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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crypto/Kconfig
[DM] dm-crypt: Move post-processing into its own queue
With async crypto we can have a large number of crypto requests
outstanding. When crypto requests for write operations are completed
they need to be given back to the block layer in process context.
We can't reuse kcryptd because it'll
[DM] dm-crypt: Add async infrastructure
This patch breaks up the read/write processing so that the crypto
operations can complete asynchronously.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 179 ++
1 files changed,
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:37:01AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
BTW, here are figures I got with 2 different versions of the driver
when using tcrypt module. The second being the result with the
optimized driver (no key reloading on each block):
normal version:
test 4 (128 bit key, 8192
