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| author | Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2009-02-19 09:33:40 +0300 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2009-02-19 09:33:40 +0300 |
| commit | 25c38d3fb92fc23af7730a1601bc20af8216ae44 (patch) | |
| tree | c191112a61457ecbf69d1a477705c87678a44231 /include/crypto/crypto_wq.h | |
| parent | 6fe4a28d8855e072036f36ee22f0a8f43f44918f (diff) | |
| download | linux-25c38d3fb92fc23af7730a1601bc20af8216ae44.tar.xz | |
crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
A dedicated workqueue named kcrypto_wq is created to be used by crypto
subsystem. The system shared keventd_wq is not suitable for
encryption/decryption, because of potential starvation problem.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto/crypto_wq.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/crypto/crypto_wq.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/crypto_wq.h b/include/crypto/crypto_wq.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a7d252daf91b --- /dev/null +++ b/include/crypto/crypto_wq.h @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +#ifndef CRYPTO_WQ_H +#define CRYPTO_WQ_H + +#include <linux/workqueue.h> + +extern struct workqueue_struct *kcrypto_wq; +#endif |