Re: [PATCH] padata: allow caller to control queue length

[Steffen Klassert]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 11:52:13AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Allow users of padata to determine the queue length themselves, via this
> added helper function, so that we can later remove the hard-coded 1000-
> job limit. We thus add a helper function, and then move the limiting
> functionality to pcrypt-proper, since it was the only current consumer
> relying on the 1000-job limit. We do, however, impose a limit on padata
> so that the reference count does not have an integer overflow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>

Why do we need this? As long as we don't have a user that needs a
different limit, this patch adds just some useless code.