On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:34:00AM +0200, Arno Wagner wrote: > I have about 45% CPU on a very low end AMD Sempron(tm) > Processor LE-1250 for 30MB/s. You probably should have > bought faster cores instead of more. > > Incidentially, I believe your request has about zero prospect > of being sucessful. It is a lot of effort for basically > very few people having any gain. I would not do it unless fully > paid, but thet _wpuld_ be expensive. Hmm, ok, thanks for your point of view. Didn't realize it's that much work, although I do know that threads do have a very bad habit of complicating everything (after all I'm a developer myself, albeit with only rather limited experience of kernel hacking (and none for the last six years)). And I hadn't thought of the solution of raid on top of dm-crypt before :) So perhaps it's just best to forget it. Or alternatively to start a project on micropledge and see how many want to pay (no, I'm not overly optimistic, but you never know) and if there will be any takers. From what you said, I gather the developer would need to have quite an amount of familiarity with dm-crypt to have any real chance of success? I do realize that would limit the number of interested developers quite dramatically. Still, I'd like one more opinion from you: If you think it shouldn't be done from a dm-crypt developer point of view because it makes the code a mess for little gain, I'll give a lot of weight to that opinion and just forget the idea, because I realize you are the dm-crypt expert here and I genuinely believe you know better what's good for dm-crypt (and since from a more pragmatic POV I guess that would reduce the chance of patches being merged). The raid-on-crypt idea probably solves most of the problem anyway, I really need to try that. Thanks for this discussion, and I'm sorry for already having taken more of your time than I probably should have if this has close to zero chances of success :-) Sami --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
