[PATCH 3/5] crypto: Reduce default RT priority

[PATCH 3/5] crypto: Reduce default RT priority

[Peter Zijlstra]

The crypto engine initializes its kworker thread to FIFO-99 (when
requesting RT priority), reduce this to FIFO-50.

FIFO-99 is the very highest priority available to SCHED_FIFO and
it not a suitable default; it would indicate the crypto work is the
most important work on the machine.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 crypto/crypto_engine.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/crypto/crypto_engine.c
+++ b/crypto/crypto_engine.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(crypto_engine_stop);
  */
 struct crypto_engine *crypto_engine_alloc_init(struct device *dev, bool rt)
 {
-	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO - 1 };
+	struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = MAX_RT_PRIO / 2 };
 	struct crypto_engine *engine;
 
 	if (!dev)

Re: [PATCH 3/5] crypto: Reduce default RT priority

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 01:13:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> The crypto engine initializes its kworker thread to FIFO-99 (when
> requesting RT priority), reduce this to FIFO-50.
> 
> FIFO-99 is the very highest priority available to SCHED_FIFO and
> it not a suitable default; it would indicate the crypto work is the
> most important work on the machine.
> 
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
>  crypto/crypto_engine.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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