Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata

[Steffen Klassert]

Hi.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:13:08AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
> 
> I found cpu_active usage in crypto/pcrypt.c and was wondering what
> that's doing there. I would really like to contain that thing to as
> narrow a piece of kernel as I possible can (sched/cpuset/hotplug) but it
> appears to be spreading.

pcrypt uses cpu_active to tell padata which cpuset it whishes
to use for parallelization. I could try to push the cpumask
handling down to padata if you want to limit this to the core
kernel.

> 
> 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/ ?

The padata code is generic and not limited to crypto, you can find
a documentation at Documentation/padata.txt.

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