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[CRYPTO] hifn: Schedule callback invocation to tasklet. 

This patch forces HIFN driver to invoke crypto request callbacks from
tasklet (softirq context) instead of hardirq context, since network
stack expects it to be called from bottom halves.

It is done by simply scheduling callback invocation via dedicated
tasklet. Workqueue solution was dropped because of tooo slow
rescheduling performance (7 times slower than tasklet, for mode details
one can check this link:
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/blog/devel/other/2007_11_09.html).

Driver passed all AES and DES tests in tcryt.c module.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Evgeniy Polyakov 2007-11-10 20:24:18 +08:00 committed by Herbert Xu
parent cd12fb906d
commit a1e6ef2f1e
1 changed files with 21 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c
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@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/crypto.h>
#include <crypto/algapi.h>
@ -426,6 +427,8 @@ struct hifn_device
u8 snum;
struct tasklet_struct tasklet;
struct crypto_queue queue;
struct list_head alg_list;
};
@ -1879,7 +1882,7 @@ static irqreturn_t hifn_interrupt(int irq, void *data)
hifn_write_1(dev, HIFN_1_DMA_IER, dev->dmareg);
}
hifn_check_for_completion(dev, 0);
tasklet_schedule(&dev->tasklet);
hifn_clear_rings(dev);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
@ -2408,6 +2411,19 @@ err_out_exit:
return err;
}
static void hifn_tasklet_callback(unsigned long data)
{
struct hifn_device *dev = (struct hifn_device *)data;
/*
* This is ok to call this without lock being held,
* althogh it modifies some parameters used in parallel,
* (like dev->success), but they are used in process
* context or update is atomic (like setting dev->sa[i] to NULL).
*/
hifn_check_for_completion(dev, 0);
}
static int hifn_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
{
int err, i;
@ -2489,6 +2505,8 @@ static int hifn_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);
tasklet_init(&dev->tasklet, hifn_tasklet_callback, (unsigned long)dev);
crypto_init_queue(&dev->queue, 1);
err = request_irq(dev->irq, hifn_interrupt, IRQF_SHARED, dev->name, dev);
@ -2524,6 +2542,7 @@ err_out_stop_device:
hifn_stop_device(dev);
err_out_free_irq:
free_irq(dev->irq, dev->name);
tasklet_kill(&dev->tasklet);
err_out_free_desc:
pci_free_consistent(pdev, sizeof(struct hifn_dma),
dev->desc_virt, dev->desc_dma);
@ -2563,6 +2582,7 @@ static void hifn_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
hifn_stop_device(dev);
free_irq(dev->irq, dev->name);
tasklet_kill(&dev->tasklet);
hifn_flush(dev);