Re: [PATCH] padata: Use RCU when fetching pd from do_serial

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:28:15AM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote:
>
> I had a patch to support crypto backlog some years ago,
> but testing with dm-crypt did not show any performance
> improvement. So I decided to just skip that patch because
> it added code for no need.

Well pcrypt is part of the API so it needs to obey the rules.
So even if it wouldn't make sense to use dm-crypt with pcrypt
it still needs to do the right thing.

Thanks,`
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