| Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2011 15:38:55 +1100 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/32] crypto: mark crypto workqueues CPU_INTENSIVE |
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:49:28PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> > Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Patch applied. Thanks! -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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