From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:20:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331893215.18960.228.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120316.031644.577275447313181686.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 03:16 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:08 +0100
>
> > 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/ ?
>
> There's really nothing specific to crypto in that padata.c file,
> anything trying to compute things in parallel with some kind
> of converging synchronization points can use that code.
So why isn't anybody else using that? Don't the block/fs people need
similar things?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-16 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-16 10:13 cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-16 10:16 ` David Miller
2012-03-16 10:20 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-03-16 10:32 ` David Miller
2012-03-16 10:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-16 10:44 ` Steffen Klassert
2012-03-17 21:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-20 7:44 ` Steffen Klassert
2012-03-16 13:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
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