[1/2] crypto/nx: Use percpu send window for NX requests
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Tue Nov 14 22:12:03 AEDT 2017
On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 06:43:02 UTC, Haren Myneni wrote:
> [PATCH 1/2] crypto/nx: Use percpu send window for NX requests
>
> For P9 NX, the send window is opened for each crypto session and closed
> upon free. But VAS supports 64K windows per chip for all coprocessors
> including in user space support. So there is a possibility of not
> getting the window for kernel requests.
>
> This patch reserves windows for each coprocessor type (NX842) and are
> available forever for kernel requests, Opens each window for each CPU
> on the corresponding chip during driver initialization. So then use the
> percpu txwin for NX requests depends on the CPU on which the process
> is executing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren at us.ibm.com>
Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/976dd6490b1b45727733a3ee1e25e1
cheers
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