From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add bulk skcipher requests to crypto API and
 dm-crypt
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:41:28 +0800
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 01:59:52PM +0100, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> 
> the goal of this patchset is to allow those skcipher API users that need to
> process batches of small messages (especially dm-crypt) to do so efficiently.

Please explain why this can't be done with the existing framework
using IV generators similar to the ones used for IPsec.

Thanks,
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