Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] qat: fix deadlock in backlog processing

2023-09-25 Thread Giovanni Cabiddu
Hi Mikulas, many thanks for reporting this issue and finding a solution. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 10:53:55PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > I was evaluating whether it is feasible to use QAT with dm-crypt (the > answer is that it is not - QAT is slower than AES-NI for this type of > workload; Q

[dm-devel] [PATCH] qat: fix deadlock in backlog processing

2023-09-21 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I was evaluating whether it is feasible to use QAT with dm-crypt (the answer is that it is not - QAT is slower than AES-NI for this type of workload; QAT starts to be benefical for encryption requests longer than 64k). And I got some deadlocks. The reason for the deadlocks is this: suppose