Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:07:25 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce the request handling for dm-crypt | From | Baolin Wang <> |
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On 12 November 2015 at 23:26, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote: > On 11/12/2015 03:04 AM, Mark Brown wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:20:41PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: >> >>> 3. perforamence data >>> It is just a simple dd test result, and will provide the formal report >>> in future. But from the simple test, we can see the improvement. >> >> >> It's probably also worth pointing out that Qualcomm have been shipping >> an out of tree implementation of this as a separate module in their BSP >> (originally written by Danesh Garg who's on this thread): >> >> >> https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/android-msm-dory-3.10-kitkat-wear/drivers/md/dm-req-crypt.c >> >> Android now wants to encrypt phones and tablets by default and have been >> seeing substantial performance hits as a result, we can try to get >> people to share performance data from productionish systems but it might >> be difficult. > > > Well, shame on them for developing out-of-tree, looks like they are reaping > all the benefits of that. > > Guys, we need some numbers, enough with the hand waving. There's no point > discussing this further until we know how much of a difference it makes to > handle X MB chunks instead of Y MB chunks. As was previously stated, unless > there's a _substantial_ performance benefit, this patchset isn't going > anywhere.
That's fair enough and we will provide the performance data to measure the patchset.
> > If there is a huge benefit, we can look into ways of making it actually > work. That may not even be a request interface, it could just be proper > utilization of plugging for in-dm bio merging.
Make sense. Thanks.
> > -- > Jens Axboe >
-- Baolin.wang Best Regards
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