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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
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

Huang Ying
2009-02-19 14:33:40 +0800

crypto_wq.h 122 Bytes

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#ifndef CRYPTO_WQ_H
#define CRYPTO_WQ_H

#include <linux/workqueue.h>

extern struct workqueue_struct *kcrypto_wq;
#endif