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author | pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-08-21 18:12:51 +0000 |
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committer | pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-08-21 18:12:51 +0000 |
commit | aee0040df6519bf287e966fc182aa13284f4420d (patch) | |
tree | 1b84f66f1bd4d7e0a51d701694791b6390e5269b /sbin/geom/class/eli/geli.8 | |
parent | af30c99a23975a7de2f4165eacf4961c02b77c42 (diff) | |
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By default, when doing crypto work in software, start as many threads
as we have active CPUs and bind each thread to its own CPU.
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/geom/class/eli/geli.8')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/eli/geli.8 b/sbin/geom/class/eli/geli.8 index 3f1dd43..f7970a0 100644 --- a/sbin/geom/class/eli/geli.8 +++ b/sbin/geom/class/eli/geli.8 @@ -445,10 +445,12 @@ passphrase can be logged and exposed via .Xr dmesg 8 . This variable should be set in .Pa /boot/loader.conf . -.It Va kern.geom.eli.threads : No 1 +.It Va kern.geom.eli.threads : No 0 Specifies how many kernel threads should be used for doing software cryptography. Its purpose is to increase performance on SMP systems. +If hardware acceleration is available, only one thread will be started. +If set to 0, CPU-bound thread will be started for every active CPU. This variable could be set in .Pa /boot/loader.conf . .El |