Re: [RFC] per-CPU cryptd thread implementation based on workqueue

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:32:17AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>
> This is the first attempt to use a dedicate workqueue for crypto. It is
> not intended to be merged. Please feedback your comments, especially on
> desgin.

Thanks for the patch!

> +		spin_lock_init(&cpu_queue->lock);

Since we're switching to per-cpu queues it would be good to just
kill the spin lock.  AFAICS the only place you really need it is
in cryptd_tfm_in_queue.  That's just used for debugging so we can
just kill it and lose this spin lock.

Cheers,
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