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| author | Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2009-02-19 14:33:40 +0800 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2009-02-19 14:33:40 +0800 |
| commit | 25c38d3fb92fc23af7730a1601bc20af8216ae44 (patch) | |
| tree | c191112a61457ecbf69d1a477705c87678a44231 /crypto/Kconfig | |
| parent | 6fe4a28d8855e072036f36ee22f0a8f43f44918f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-25c38d3fb92fc23af7730a1601bc20af8216ae44.tar.gz lwn-25c38d3fb92fc23af7730a1601bc20af8216ae44.zip | |
crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
A dedicated workqueue named kcrypto_wq is created to be used by crypto
subsystem. The system shared keventd_wq is not suitable for
encryption/decryption, because of potential starvation problem.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'crypto/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/Kconfig b/crypto/Kconfig index a83ce0462b6b..420b630a17cf 100644 --- a/crypto/Kconfig +++ b/crypto/Kconfig @@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ config CRYPTO_NULL help These are 'Null' algorithms, used by IPsec, which do nothing. +config CRYPTO_WORKQUEUE + tristate + config CRYPTO_CRYPTD tristate "Software async crypto daemon" select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER |