Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:01:35 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] crypto: SHA1 multibuffer crypto hash infrastructure |
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:28:25PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > Peter, > > Is my explanation adequate or you still have objection to the implementation? I'm > trying to decide here whether to extend our batch processing by > the crypto daemon (prolong our busy period) > based on whether there are other tasks to run. Pre-emption and > resuming the crypto daemon is okay. Even if there's a pre-emption and > context switch in between, we can still do extended processing if > there's nothing else to run. Otherwise the cpu will go idle.
I suppose.. I still don't really like it but what the heck.
That single_task_running thing is hard to use and a weird interface so lets hope people don't find more 'creative' users for it.
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