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Message-ID: <20190717084739.35evhqushmjejmmq@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:47:40 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:     Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        paulmck@...ux.ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] padata: Use RCU when fetching pd from do_serial

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:28:15AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> I had a patch to support crypto backlog some years ago,
> but testing with dm-crypt did not show any performance
> improvement. So I decided to just skip that patch because
> it added code for no need.

Well pcrypt is part of the API so it needs to obey the rules.
So even if it wouldn't make sense to use dm-crypt with pcrypt
it still needs to do the right thing.

Thanks,`
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