Re: [RFC v4 2/4] crypto: Introduce CRYPTO_ALG_BULK flag

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Jun 15 2016 - 03:40:31 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 03:38:02PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
>
> But that means we should divide the bulk request into 512-byte size
> requests and break up the mapped sg table for each request. Another
> hand we should allocate memory for each request in crypto layer, which
> dm-crypt have supplied one high efficiency way. I think these are
> really top level how to use the crypro APIs, does that need to move
> into crypto laryer? Thanks.

I have already explained to you how you can piggy-back off dm-crypt's
allocation, so what's the problem?
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