On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 03:30:12PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:27:40AM -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: > > > > So, IMHO, it can consume memory too much, since tfm should be allocated for > > every inodes and be alive until inode eviction. > > Are you sure this is a real problem? Have you actually looked at > how much memory it consumes? I didn't measure the memory footprint. I can't tell it is a real problem, but at least, I hope it can reduce somewhat memory consumption. Because, already per-inode crypto structure consumes at least 84 bytes. > > > Apart from giving GFP_NOFS, do you mean that it is a wrong approach? > > Allocating the tfm and setting a key on the data path is not > acceptable. Ok, I'll check it again and investigate in more detail how not to break this rule. Thank you very much for the comments. > > Cheers, > -- > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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
