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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	pedrib@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:32:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101020173231.GP3935@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBEFABC.3030400@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 04:20:44PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> this patch introduces apparent regressions in async crypto mode.
 
OK, thanks for performing those tests.

This patch is stalled until these problems are understood properly and
solutions are proposed.  I was prepared to overlook the regression in
stacked 'async' provided there was an inline FIXME explaining clearly
how to fix it in future should we need to, but I can't support a patch that
apparently breaks stacked sync encryption.

One solution might be to make the proposed changes only for non-stacked
configurations and leave stacks to work as they do today - either
detecting that automatically or having userspace supply a target
parameter to say whether or not to turn it on.  (For that, would need
tests to show a stack of many layers where only one is a crypt target
continues to work after the change.)

Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-10 11:59 [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3 Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 12:38 ` [dm-devel] " Milan Broz
2010-10-10 12:53   ` Milan Broz
2010-10-10 13:09     ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 13:08   ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 15:34     ` Milan Broz
2010-10-10 16:06       ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 16:22       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-10-10 16:41         ` Milan Broz
2010-10-10 17:07           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-10-10 18:56             ` [PATCH] Fix double free and use generic private pointer in per-cpu struct Milan Broz
2010-10-14 19:26               ` [dm-devel] " Milan Broz
2010-10-20 14:20                 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3 Milan Broz
2010-10-20 17:32                   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2010-10-10 17:01         ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-10 17:44           ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 18:17             ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-10 18:48               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-10 18:51               ` [dm-devel] " Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 19:07                 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-10-10 19:16                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-10 19:31                     ` Milan Broz
2010-10-10 20:20                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-11  9:32                         ` Milan Broz

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