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dm-crypt: increase mempool size

Message ID alpine.LRH.2.02.1607151728060.20843@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Mike Snitzer
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Mikulas Patocka July 15, 2016, 9:30 p.m. UTC
Increase mempool size from 16 to 64 entries.

When swapping to dm-crypt, all available memory is temporarily exhausted
and dm-crypt is only using the mempool reserve. Increasing mempool reserve
improves swapping performance.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>


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Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@  struct crypt_config {
 	u8 key[0];
 };
 
-#define MIN_IOS        16
+#define MIN_IOS        64
 
 static void clone_init(struct dm_crypt_io *, struct bio *);
 static void kcryptd_queue_crypt(struct dm_crypt_io *io);