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Fri, 09 Nov 2007
New HIFN driver release.
This release forces HIFN driver to invoke crypto callbacks in
softirq context instead of hardirq one because of network stack, which
performs whole data processing either in process or bottom-half context.
One can find new driver in archive.
It will be included into 2.6.25 kernel tree via
cryptodev git tree.
/devel/acrypto/hifn :: Link / Comments (0)
Tasklet vs workqueue. Performance numbers.
Herbert Xu pointed that my
HIFN driver
performs callback invocation from hardirq context, but many in-kernel users expect it to be
from softirq context (bottom halves) - network stack processing happens in that context,
so I decided to add some kind of rescheduling of the callback invocation: better would be
to call it from process context (workqueue), but tasklet (softirq context) is good too.
So, to find the fastest solution I implemented trivial testing module, which reschedules
either tasklet or workqueue until predefined number of executions is reached, and shows time
it took.
Here is a result:
workqueue: 10000000 iterations, 4.85 seconds
tasklet: 10000000 iterations, 0.70 seconds
As you can see, tasklet is about 6.92 times faster.
Test was performed on AMD Athlon64 3500+ (2210 Mhz) with 1 GB of RAM.
One can find testing module in archive.
/devel/other :: Link / Comments (0)
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