Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Chr <> | | Subject | Re: [dm-crypt] INFO: task mount:11202 blocked for more than 120 seconds | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:57:53 +0100 |
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On Monday 17 March 2008 18:36:09 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Latest version for everyone to try: > > From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> > > Fix regression in dm-crypt introduced in commit > 3a7f6c990ad04e6f576a159876c602d14d6f7fef > (dm crypt: use async crypto). > > If write requests need to be split into pieces, the code must not > process them in parallel because the crypto context cannot be shared. > So there can be parallel crypto operations on one part of the write, > but only one write bio can be processed at a time. > > This is not optimal and the workqueue code need to be optimized for > parallel processing, but for now it solves problem without affecting > the performance of synchronous crypto operation (most of current > dm-crypt users). > > Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> > > [...]
Is there already a new, optimized version? Or is it postponed and someone will _hopefully_ merge this patch into -rc7-gitX before we have a buggy mainline 2.6.25?
Thanks, Chr
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