Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:44:57 +0100 | From | Steffen Klassert <> | Subject | Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata |
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:00:34PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 11:44 +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > > > pcrypt uses cpu_active to tell padata which cpuset it whishes > > to use for parallelization. I could try to push the cpumask > > handling down to padata if you want to limit this to the core > > kernel. > > /me more confused now.. cpu_active isn't in any way shape or form > related to cpusets.
When looking at this, it seems that cpu_online_mask is the mask we should use instead of cpu_active_mask. I'll go in for a closer look at the end of the week.
> > > > The padata code is generic and not limited to crypto, you can find > > a documentation at Documentation/padata.txt. > > Would be nice to have a short blurb in kernel/padata.c with a reference > to that Documentation stuff for more in-depth bits.
Indeed, I'll take care for this.
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