[RFC v3 2/4] crypto: Introduce CRYPTO_ALG_BULK flag

2016-05-31 Thread Baolin Wang
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

[RFC v3 2/4] crypto: Introduce CRYPTO_ALG_BULK flag

2016-05-31 Thread Baolin Wang
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