linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] crypto: Reduce default RT priority

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Message-Id: <20190801111541.800409062@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:13:51 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     mingo@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] crypto: Reduce default RT priority

The crypto engine initializes its kworker thread to FIFO-99 (when
requesting RT priority), reduce this to FIFO-50.

FIFO-99 is the very highest priority available to SCHED_FIFO and
it not a suitable default; it would indicate the crypto work is the
most important work on the machine.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 crypto/crypto_engine.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/crypto/crypto_engine.c
+++ b/crypto/crypto_engine.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_engine_stop);
  */
 struct crypto_engine *crypto_engine_alloc_init(struct device *dev, bool rt)
 {
-	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1 };
+	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO / 2 };
 	struct crypto_engine *engine;
 
 	if (!dev)