On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 04:31:54AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > Should we just retry a number of times and then fail? > > It's better to get stuck in an infinite loop than to cause random I/O > errors. The infinite loop requires reboot, but it doesn't damage data on > disks. > > The proper solution would be to add the request to a queue and process the > queue when some other request ended - but it would need substantial > rewrite of the driver. Do you want to rewrite it using a queue? > > > Or, should we just move to the crypto-engine? > > What do you mean by the crypto-engine? crypto-engine is the generic queueing mechanism that any crypto driver can use to implement the queueing. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
