On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:14:19AM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote: > > I'll try fixing the flushing with Steffen's refcounting idea assuming he > hasn't already started on that. So we're on the same page, the problem is > that if padata's ->parallel() punts to a cryptd thread, flushing the parallel > work will return immediately without necessarily indicating the parallel job > is finished, so flushing is pointless and padata_replace needs to wait till > the instance's refcount drops to 0. Did I get it right?
Yeah you can never flush an async crypto job. You have to wait for it to finish. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
