Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] crypto: SHA1 multibuffer crypto hash infrastructure

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 03:28:25PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:

Peter,

Is my explanation adequate or you still have objection to the implementation?  I'm
trying to decide here whether to extend our batch processing by
the crypto daemon (prolong our busy period) 
based on whether there are other tasks to run.  Pre-emption and
resuming the crypto daemon is okay. Even if there's a pre-emption and
context switch in between, we can still do extended processing if
there's nothing else to run. Otherwise the cpu will go idle. 

I suppose.. I still don't really like it but what the heck.

That single_task_running thing is hard to use and a weird interface so
lets hope people don't find more 'creative' users for it.