Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/3] [DM] dm-crypt: Move post-processing into its own queue

2007-07-25 Thread Milan Broz
Hi Herbert, Herbert Xu wrote: [DM] dm-crypt: Move post-processing into its own queue + _kcryptd_io_workqueue = create_workqueue(kcryptd-io); Adding another qlobal per-cpu queue can lead to wasteful creating of too many kernel threads in system (system with many cores etc.) I have

[PATCH 1/3] [DM] dm-crypt: Move post-processing into its own queue

2007-04-16 Thread Herbert Xu
[DM] dm-crypt: Move post-processing into its own queue With async crypto we can have a large number of crypto requests outstanding. When crypto requests for write operations are completed they need to be given back to the block layer in process context. We can't reuse kcryptd because it'll