Hi Binoy,
2017-01-16 9:37 GMT+01:00 Binoy Jayan :
> The initial goal of our proposal was to process the encryption requests with
> the
> maximum possible block sizes with a hardware which has automated iv generation
> capabilities. But when it is done in software, and if the bulk
> requests are p
Hi Ondrej,
On 12 January 2017 at 18:29, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> This patch converts dm-crypt to use bulk requests when invoking skcipher
> operations, allowing the crypto drivers to process multiple sectors at once,
> while reducing the overhead caused by the small sector size.
>
> The new code
This patch converts dm-crypt to use bulk requests when invoking skcipher
operations, allowing the crypto drivers to process multiple sectors at once,
while reducing the overhead caused by the small sector size.
The new code detects if multiple sectors from a bio are contigously stored
within a sin