crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem

Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem

A dedicated workqueue named kcrypto_wq is created to be used by crypto
subsystem. The system shared keventd_wq is not suitable for
encryption/decryption, because of potential starvation problem.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
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Huang Ying 2009-02-19 14:33:40 +08:00 • committed by Herbert Xu
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@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ config CRYPTO_NULL
help
These are 'Null' algorithms, used by IPsec, which do nothing.
config CRYPTO_WORKQUEUE
tristate
config CRYPTO_CRYPTD
tristate "Software async crypto daemon"
select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER