Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:32:04 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:20:15 +0100
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 03:16 -0700, David Miller wrote: >> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> >> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:08 +0100 >> >> > Also, wth is all this kernel/padata.c stuff? There's next to no useful >> > comment in there and the only consumer seems to be pcrypt, does that >> > really need to be in kernel/ ? >> >> There's really nothing specific to crypto in that padata.c file, >> anything trying to compute things in parallel with some kind >> of converging synchronization points can use that code. > > So why isn't anybody else using that? Don't the block/fs people need > similar things?
Beats me, but just because there's only one user doesn't mean it belongs tucked away in that one user's subsystem.
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