On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:17:25PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: > I don't understand the benefit of the change you have > described. The benefit of the change I described is that it would > eliminate some instructions, making encryption and decryption run > a bit faster in the CONFIG_PREEMPT case. The BKL must be dropped voluntarily, e.g. via schedule() or unlock_kernel(), to allow preemption when the BKL is held. -- wli - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
