From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761088Ab2CPKU1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:20:27 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:32900 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760112Ab2CPKU0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:20:26 -0400 Message-ID: <1331893215.18960.228.camel@twins> Subject: Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata From: Peter Zijlstra To: David Miller Cc: steffen.klassert@secunet.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:20:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20120316.031644.577275447313181686.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1331892788.18960.227.camel@twins> <20120316.031644.577275447313181686.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 03:16 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Peter Zijlstra > 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?