Hardware-accelerated in-kernel cryptography
The Linux® kernel implements cryptographic operations for kernel subsystems like dm-crypt and IPSec. Applications can use these operations through the kernel cryptographic API.
In-kernel cryptographic operations can be performed by platform-specific implementations instead of the generic implementations within the Linux® kernel.
On IBM® Z, hardware-accelerated processing is available for some of these operations.
This chapter is identical in the two versions of the SLES 12 SP4 Device Drivers book: LPAR/z/VM and KVM guest. Please comment if you are aware any differences.