Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Mar 16 2012 - 06:19:17 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:08 +0100

> Also, wth is all this kernel/padata.c stuff? There's next to no useful
> comment in there and the only consumer seems to be pcrypt, does that
> really need to be in kernel/ ?

There's really nothing specific to crypto in that padata.c file,
anything trying to compute things in parallel with some kind
of converging synchronization points can use that code.
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