Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] dm-crypt excessive overhead

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 05:24:39PM +0100, Ignat Korchagin wrote:
> 
> I may be misunderstanding the terminology, but tasklets execute in
> soft IRQ, don't they? What we care about is to execute the decryption
> as fast as possible, but we can't do it in a hard IRQ context (that
> is, the interrupt context where other interrupts are disabled). As far
> as I understand, tasklets are executed right after the hard IRQ
> context, but with interrupts enabled - which is the first safe-ish
> place to do more lengthy processing without the risk of missing an
> interrupt.

Yes you are absolutely right.  In general high-performance work
should be carried out in softirq context.  That's how the networking
stack works for example.

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