Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753218Ab0KGOai (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:30:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25653 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752882Ab0KGOah (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:30:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4CD6B7FA.3050005@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:30:18 +0100 From: Milan Broz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100918 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt CC: Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel , dm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3 on 2.6.37-rc* ? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 23 On 11/06/2010 11:16 PM, Matt wrote: > before diving into testing out 2.6.37-rc* kernels I wanted to make > sure that the patch: > > [dm-devel] [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3 > > is safe to use with e.g. >2.6.37-rc1 kernels > > I know that it's not a "fix all" patch but it significantly seems to > speed up my backup jobs (by factor 2-3) > and 2.6.37* has evolved that much that interactivity isn't hurt too much yes, it should work for the simple mappings without problems. I hope we will fix the patch soon to be ready for upstream. Milan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/