On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:09:35PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > The crypto daemon can take advantage of available cpu > cycles to flush any unfinished jobs if it is the > only task running on the cpu, and there are no more crypto > jobs to process. You conveniently forgot to mention energy efficiency, and the problem with short idle durations. Although the latter issue seems overshadowed by the not so very robust idle detection. In any case, same as the other patch, you can get similarly inconclusive semantics without single_task_running(). > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > crypto/mcryptd.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > +/* > + * Called in workqueue context, do one real cryption work (via > * req->complete) and reschedule itself if there are more work to > - * do. */ > + * do. > + */ See, this should've been in the previous patch :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
