[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] md: dm-verity: allow parallel processing of bio blocks

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:41 PM, Yael Chemla <yael.chemla at foss.arm.com> wrote:
>  Allow parallel processing of bio blocks by moving to async. completion
>  handling. This allows for better resource utilization of both HW and
>  software based hash tfm and therefore better performance in many cases,
>  depending on the specific tfm in use.
>
>  Tested on ARM32 (zynq board) and ARM64 (Juno board).
>  Time of cat command was measured on a filesystem with various file sizes.
>  12% performance improvement when HW based hash was used (ccree driver).
>  SW based hash showed less than 1% improvement.
>  CPU utilization when HW based hash was used presented 10% less context
>  switch, 4% less cycles and 7% less instructions. No difference in
>  CPU utilization noticed with SW based hash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yael Chemla <yael.chemla at foss.arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c    |  10 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.h    |   7 +-
>  drivers/md/dm-verity-target.c | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  drivers/md/dm-verity.h        |   4 +-
>  4 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad at benyossef.com>

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