On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:34:47 +0200 Helmut Schaa <helmut.sc...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The talitos driver can cause starvation of other softirqs and as such > it can also cause rcu stalls like: ... > Work around this by processing a maximum amount of 16 finished requests > and rescheduling the done-tasklet if any work is left. > This allows other softirqs to run. 16 sounds rather arbitrary, and application-dependent - talitos' FIFO size is 24. IIRC, netdev's NAPI can be refactored out of just being able to work on network devices, and be made to apply to crypto devices, too. In fact, some old Freescale hacks of this nature have improved performance. Can we do something like refactor NAPI instead? Thanks, Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
