I filed a bug report on this with Ubuntu before I joined this mailing list: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/246413 I too would really like it if dm-crypt could use multiple cores. -Clay On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Andrew Miklas <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > About two months ago, there was a message here about whether dm-crypt uses > more than one core to do encryption. I did some experimenting with kernel > 2.6.26.3, and it seems that dm-crypt uses one core per device. > > How difficult would it be to adjust dm-crypt so that it splits crypto > operations for one device evenly across the available CPUs? I noticed that > dm-crypt was recently converted to use the async support in the Linux crypto > library. I guess this is the first step to getting true multicore support > working? > > Is there anything I can do to help with this? > > > -- Andrew > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > >
