• Mikulas Patocka's avatar
    dm crypt: offload writes to thread · dc267621
    Mikulas Patocka authored
    Submitting write bios directly in the encryption thread caused serious
    performance degradation.  On a multiprocessor machine, encryption requests
    finish in a different order than they were submitted.  Consequently, write
    requests would be submitted in a different order and it could cause severe
    performance degradation.
    
    Move the submission of write requests to a separate thread so that the
    requests can be sorted before submitting.  But this commit improves
    dm-crypt performance even without having dm-crypt perform request
    sorting (in particular it enables IO schedulers like CFQ to sort more
    effectively).
    
    Note: it is required that a previous commit ("dm crypt: don't allocate
    pages for a partial request") be applied before applying this patch.
    Otherwise, this commit could introduce a crash.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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