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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dm-crypt multithreaded yet?
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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler?= <thomas@archlinux.org>
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On 08/08/2012 05:31 PM, Thomas B=E4chler wrote:
> This is in 2.6.38 and later, I think:

No, it is not. This is something different.

In current kernel is per-cpu changes but it will not use
parallel cpu cores if it is submitted from the same cpu.

Mikulas' patches tries to create parallel threads and run
operations on all cores (plus some other changes as sorting).

Milan