- Jan 04, 2011
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Tejun Heo authored
kcrypto_wq and pcrypt->wq's are used to run ciphers and may consume considerable amount of CPU cycles. Mark both as CPU_INTENSIVE so that they don't block other work items. As the workqueues are primarily used to burn CPU cycles, concurrency levels shouldn't matter much and are left at 1. A higher value may be beneficial and needs investigation. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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- Feb 18, 2009
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Huang Ying authored
Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem A dedicated workqueue named kcrypto_wq is created to be used by crypto subsystem. The system shared keventd_wq is not suitable for encryption/decryption, because of potential starvation problem. Signed-off-by:
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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