[dm-devel] Re: [dm-crypt] INFO: task mount:11202 blocked for more than 120 seconds

[Chr]

On Monday 17 March 2008 18:36:09 Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Latest version for everyone to try:
>
> From: Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com>
>
> Fix regression in dm-crypt introduced in commit
> 3a7f6c990ad04e6f576a159876c602d14d6f7fef
> (dm crypt: use async crypto).
>
> If write requests need to be split into pieces, the code must not
> process them in parallel because the crypto context cannot be shared.
> So there can be parallel crypto operations on one part of the write,
> but only one write bio can be processed at a time.
>
> This is not optimal and the workqueue code need to be optimized for
> parallel processing, but for now it solves problem without affecting
> the performance of synchronous crypto operation (most of current
> dm-crypt users).
>
> Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
>
> [...]

Is there already a new, optimized version? Or is it postponed and someone will 
_hopefully_ merge  this patch into -rc7-gitX before we have a buggy mainline 
2.6.25?

Thanks,
	Chr