On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:36:09PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Latest version for everyone to try: > > From: Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Fix regression in dm-crypt introduced in commit > 3a7f6c990ad04e6f576a159876c602d14d6f7fef > (dm crypt: use async crypto). > > If write requests need to be split into pieces, the code must not > process them in parallel because the crypto context cannot be shared. > So there can be parallel crypto operations on one part of the write, > but only one write bio can be processed at a time. Could you explain this part please? Crypto tfm objects are meant to be reentrant, synchronous or not. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
