Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] dm-crypt excessive overhead

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 02:39:39PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking at this and I'd like to know why does the crypto API fail in 
> > hard-irq context and why does it work in tasklet context. What's the exact 
> > reason behind this?
> 
> You're not supposed to do any real work in IRQ handlers.  All
> the substantial work should be postponed to softirq context.

I see.

BTW - should it also warn if it is running in a process context with 
interrupts disabled?

Mikulas

> Why do you need to do work in hard IRQ context?
> 
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