linux-kernel - Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata

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Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:15:56 -0600
From:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:08 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> 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/ ?

FWIW I wrote that stuff up when it went in...

	https://lwn.net/Articles/382257/

Might be helpful in case anybody else thinks they might want to use this
facility.  Maybe.

jon
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