While working on the cryptd request reordering problem, I noticed
an anomaly where kernel threads are normally allowed to use simd
per may_use_simd, but as soon as you disable softirqs, they suddenly
lose that ability for no good reason.
The problem is that in_interrupt does not distinguish
On 14 November 2014 16:43, Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au wrote:
While working on the cryptd request reordering problem, I noticed
an anomaly where kernel threads are normally allowed to use simd
per may_use_simd, but as soon as you disable softirqs, they suddenly
lose that ability for
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 05:17:05PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
On 14 November 2014 16:43, Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.apana.org.au wrote:
While working on the cryptd request reordering problem, I noticed
an anomaly where kernel threads are normally allowed to use simd
per may_use_simd, but