Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] crypto: allow users to specify acomp hardware from a desired NUMA node

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Jul 09 2020 - 08:56:12 EST


On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:18:57PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> For a typical Linux server, probably there are multiple ZIP modules.
> For example, numa node0 has a compressor, numa node2 has a same module.
> Some drivers are automatically using the module near the CPU calling
> acomp_alloc.
> But it isn't necessarily correct. Just like memory allocation API like
> kmalloc and kmalloc_node. Similar optimization may be done for crypto.
>
> -v3:
> move to use kzalloc_node according to Herbert's comment
> -v2:
> cleanup according to Jonathan Cameron's comment
>
> Barry Song (3):
> crypto: permit users to specify numa node of acomp hardware
> crypto: hisilicon/zip - permit users to specify NUMA node
> mm/zswap: allocate acomp on the numa node committing acomp_req[1]
>
> [1] This patch is againest a zswap patch which has not been merged yet:
> "[PATCH v3] mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware
> acceleration"
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/6/26/95
>
> crypto/acompress.c | 8 ++++++++
> crypto/api.c | 24 ++++++++++++++---------
> crypto/internal.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/zip/zip.h | 2 +-
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/zip/zip_crypto.c | 6 +++---
> drivers/crypto/hisilicon/zip/zip_main.c | 5 +++--
> include/crypto/acompress.h | 18 +++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/crypto.h | 2 ++
> mm/zswap.c | 2 +-
> 9 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Patches 1-2 applied. Thanks.
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