Re: [PATCH 3/5] crypto: Reduce default RT priority

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Aug 09 2019 - 02:19:52 EST


On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:13:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The crypto engine initializes its kworker thread to FIFO-99 (when
> requesting RT priority), reduce this to FIFO-50.
>
> FIFO-99 is the very highest priority available to SCHED_FIFO and
> it not a suitable default; it would indicate the crypto work is the
> most important work on the machine.
>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> crypto/crypto_engine.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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