Re: [PATCH 0/9] padata: use unbound workqueues for parallel jobs

[Steffen Klassert]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 08:52:15PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> No objections the first time around[*], so this series is no longer RFC.
> The code is the same other than being rebased on recent padata fixes.
> Any feedback or testing welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
> RFC -> v1:
>  - Included Tejun's acks.
>  - Added testing section to cover letter.
> 
> Padata binds the parallel part of a job to a single CPU and round-robins
> over all CPUs in the system for each successive job.  Though the serial
> parts rely on per-CPU queues for correct ordering, they're not necessary
> for parallel work, and it improves performance to run the job locally on
> NUMA machines and let the scheduler pick the CPU within a node on a busy
> system.
>   
> This series makes parallel padata jobs run on unbound workqueues.

Looks good!

I did a test with IPsec pcrypt and it seems to work as expected.
Crypto load gets distributed, no network packet reordering.

Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>