linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v13 00/12] Inline Encryption Support

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Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 07:42:24 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Satya Tangirala <satyat@...gle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Barani Muthukumaran <bmuthuku@....qualcomm.com>,
        Kuohong Wang <kuohong.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Kim Boojin <boojin.kim@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 00/12] Inline Encryption Support

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:25:40PM +0000, Satya Tangirala wrote:
> One of the nice things about the current design is that regardless of what
> request queue an FS sends an encrypted bio to, blk-crypto will be able to handle
> the encryption (whether by using hardware inline encryption, or using the
> blk-crypto-fallback). The FS itself does not need to worry about what the
> request queue is.

True.  Which just makes me despise that design with the pointless
fallback even more..