Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3

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From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 11:51 am

> AFAIK Nested dm-crypt is not extreme for some folk who have routine

Previously they will all pile up on the single worker thread.

Now in the nested case the nested work is run in their own
context. This should actually scale better because you
get parallelism too, not contention on a single resource.

The only difference to the non nested case is that the wq 
is not used.

-Andi

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[PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 10, 4:59 am)
Re: DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Mike Snitzer, (Sun Oct 10, 9:22 am)
Re: DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Milan Broz, (Sun Oct 10, 9:41 am)
Re: DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Alasdair G Kergon, (Sun Oct 10, 10:01 am)
Re: DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Mike Snitzer, (Sun Oct 10, 10:07 am)
Re: DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 10, 10:44 am)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Alasdair G Kergon, (Sun Oct 10, 11:17 am)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Alasdair G Kergon, (Sun Oct 10, 11:48 am)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 10, 11:51 am)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Alasdair G Kergon, (Sun Oct 10, 12:07 pm)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 10, 12:16 pm)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Milan Broz, (Sun Oct 10, 12:31 pm)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Andi Kleen, (Sun Oct 10, 1:20 pm)
Re: [dm-devel] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Milan Broz, (Mon Oct 11, 2:32 am)
Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3, Alasdair G Kergon, (Wed Oct 20, 10:32 am)