Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.20-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

[platform/kernel/linux-rpi.git] / Documentation / device-mapper / dm-crypt.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt
index c81839b..ad69778 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-crypt.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Parameters: <cipher> <key> <iv_offset> <device path> \
     Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments.
 
     Example of optional parameters section:
-        1 allow_discards
+        3 allow_discards same_cpu_crypt submit_from_crypt_cpus
 
 allow_discards
     Block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) are passed through the crypt device.
@@ -63,6 +63,19 @@ allow_discards
     used space etc.) if the discarded blocks can be located easily on the
     device later.
 
+same_cpu_crypt
+    Perform encryption using the same cpu that IO was submitted on.
+    The default is to use an unbound workqueue so that encryption work
+    is automatically balanced between available CPUs.
+
+submit_from_crypt_cpus
+    Disable offloading writes to a separate thread after encryption.
+    There are some situations where offloading write bios from the
+    encryption threads to a single thread degrades performance
+    significantly.  The default is to offload write bios to the same
+    thread because it benefits CFQ to have writes submitted using the
+    same context.
+
 Example scripts
 ===============
 LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is now the preferred way to set up disk