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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	keith.busch@intel.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	sagig@mellanox.com, tj@kernel.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce the bulk IV mode for improving the crypto engine efficiency
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:38:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5514385.nEhTK7fEcU@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1601121744400.18228@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Tuesday 12 January 2016 18:31:19 Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> 
> Another possibility is to use dm-crypt block size 4k and use a filesystem 
> with 4k blocksize on it (it will never send requests not aligned on 4k 
> boundary, so we could reject such requests with an error).

Is there ever a reason to use something other than 4K block size on
dm-crypt?

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-12 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-16  3:18 [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce the bulk IV mode for improving the crypto engine efficiency Baolin Wang
2015-12-16  3:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] block: Export the __blk_bios_map_sg() to map one bio Baolin Wang
2015-12-16  3:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] md: dm-crypt: Introduce the bulk IV mode for bulk crypto Baolin Wang
2015-12-16  8:08 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Introduce the bulk IV mode for improving the crypto engine efficiency Milan Broz
2015-12-16  8:31   ` Baolin Wang
2015-12-17  7:37   ` Baolin Wang
2016-01-02 22:46     ` Milan Broz
2016-01-04  6:58       ` Baolin Wang
2016-01-04 20:13       ` Mark Brown
2016-01-06  6:49         ` Baolin Wang
2016-01-12 23:31         ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2016-01-12 23:38           ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-01-13  2:18             ` Mikulas Patocka
2016-01-13 10:17               ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-01-13 15:00                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2016-01-13  7:01             ` Milan Broz
2016-01-12 23:40           ` Mark Brown
2016-01-13  2:13             ` Mikulas Patocka
2016-01-14 11:35               ` Mark Brown

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