Re: DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Oct 10 2010 - 13:45:12 EST


On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 06:01:51PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > this out quite yet. You have 4 patches yet you say conceptually there
> > are 2 distinct changes.
>
> IOW should we end up with 2 bisectable patches here?
>
> And the potentially-broken/poorly-performing stacked async should be
> explained in comments inline perhaps if we're choosing to ignore this
> apparent regression.

It's not broken AFAIK and it will not perform worse than the original
single thread work queue.

-Andi

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