Re: [RFC PATCH v4] IV Generation algorithms for dm-crypt

[Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>]

Hi Herbert,

On 8 February 2017 at 13:02, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> wrote:
>> ===============================================================================
>> dm-crypt optimization for larger block sizes
>> ===============================================================================
>>
>> Currently, the iv generation algorithms are implemented in dm-crypt.c. The goal
>> is to move these algorithms from the dm layer to the kernel crypto layer by
>> implementing them as template ciphers so they can be used in relation with
>> algorithms like aes, and with multiple modes like cbc, ecb etc. As part of this
>> patchset, the iv-generation code is moved from the dm layer to the crypto layer
>> and adapt the dm-layer to send a whole 'bio' (as defined in the block layer)
>> at a time. Each bio contains the in memory representation of physically
>> contiguous disk blocks. Since the bio itself may not be contiguous in main
>> memory, the dm layer sets up a chained scatterlist of these blocks split into
>> physically contiguous segments in memory so that DMA can be performed.

> Ran Bonnie++ on it last night  (Luks mode, plain64, Qemu Virt platform
> Arm64) and it works just fine.
>
> Tested-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>

I was wondering if this is near to be ready for submission (apart from
the testmgr.c
changes) or I need to make some changes to make it similar to the IPSec offload?

Thanks,
Binoy