linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] per-CPU cryptd thread implementation based on workqueue

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Date:	Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:31:05 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] per-CPU cryptd thread implementation based on workqueue

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:10:36AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> 
> The scalability of current cryptd implementation is not good. So a
> per-CPU cryptd kthread implementation is necessary. The per-CPU kthread
> pool implementation need to consider many issues such as CPU hotplug, so
> I suggest to base cryptd kthread implementation on workqueue, that is,
> create a dedicate workqueue for crypto subsystem. This way, chainiv can
> use this crypto workqueue too.

Yes that sounds like a great idea.

> I will implement it if you have no plan to do it yourself.

Please do.

Thanks,
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