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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-21 13:28:45 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-21 13:28:45 -0800 |
commit | a911dcdba190ddf77e9199b9917156f879f42d4b (patch) | |
tree | c94d84a9fa48520cd993670a0b4f434c4dcb48db /Documentation | |
parent | e20d3ef5406d3a28b76a63905b2a6bd3fb95c377 (diff) | |
parent | 22aa66a3ee5b61e0f4a0bfeabcaa567861109ec3 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'dm-3.20-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull more device mapper changes from Mike Snitzer:
- Significant dm-crypt CPU scalability performance improvements thanks
to changes that enable effective use of an unbound workqueue across
all available CPUs. A large battery of tests were performed to
validate these changes, summary of results is available here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-February/msg00106.html
- A few additional stable fixes (to DM core, dm-snapshot and dm-mirror)
and a small fix to the dm-space-map-disk.
* tag 'dm-3.20-changes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload
dm: fix a race condition in dm_get_md
dm crypt: sort writes
dm crypt: add 'submit_from_crypt_cpus' option
dm crypt: offload writes to thread
dm crypt: remove unused io_pool and _crypt_io_pool
dm crypt: avoid deadlock in mempools
dm crypt: don't allocate pages for a partial request
dm crypt: use unbound workqueue for request processing
dm io: reject unsupported DISCARD requests with EOPNOTSUPP
dm mirror: do not degrade the mirror on discard error
dm space map disk: fix sm_disk_count_is_more_than_one()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt index c81839b52c4d..ad697781f9ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \ Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments. Example of optional parameters section: - 1 allow_discards + 3 allow_discards same_cpu_crypt submit_from_crypt_cpus allow_discards Block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) are passed through the crypt device. @@ -63,6 +63,19 @@ allow_discards used space etc.) if the discarded blocks can be located easily on the device later. +same_cpu_crypt + Perform encryption using the same cpu that IO was submitted on. + The default is to use an unbound workqueue so that encryption work + is automatically balanced between available CPUs. + +submit_from_crypt_cpus + Disable offloading writes to a separate thread after encryption. + There are some situations where offloading write bios from the + encryption threads to a single thread degrades performance + significantly. The default is to offload write bios to the same + thread because it benefits CFQ to have writes submitted using the + same context. + Example scripts =============== LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk |