Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:45:47 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Matt <jackdachef@gmail.com>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, dm-devel@redhat.com,
        htd@fancy-poultry.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DM-CRYPT: Scale to multiple CPUs v3 on 2.6.37-rc* ?
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> I read about barrier-problems and data getting to the partition when
> using dm-crypt and several layers so I don't know if that could be
> related

Barriers seem to be totally broken on dm-crypt currently.

But that's probably not your problem. I use the scalability patch
on 2.6.36 and it's very stable. Most likely some mistake 
in the forward port.

-Andi
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