summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/man/crypttab.xml
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJonathan G. Underwood <jonathan.underwood@gmail.com>2020-12-22 20:04:52 +0000
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2020-12-23 11:07:48 +0000
commit227acf0009bde2cd7f8bc371615b05e84137847d (patch)
tree6647df91a99a8c856266827b035f21052e39bda4 /man/crypttab.xml
parent68709a636c838e0754b49caa6ff2d4168e3c99c8 (diff)
downloadsystemd-227acf0009bde2cd7f8bc371615b05e84137847d.tar.gz
cryptsetup: add support for workqueue options
This commit adds support for disabling the read and write workqueues with the new crypttab options no-read-workqueue and no-write-workqueue. These correspond to the cryptsetup options --perf-no_read_workqueue and --perf-no_write_workqueue respectively.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/crypttab.xml')
-rw-r--r--man/crypttab.xml19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/crypttab.xml b/man/crypttab.xml
index 2062a5b8e7..72fe2e692d 100644
--- a/man/crypttab.xml
+++ b/man/crypttab.xml
@@ -343,6 +343,25 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>no-read-workqueue</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Bypass dm-crypt internal workqueue and process read requests synchronously. The
+ default is to queue these requests and process them asynchronously.</para>
+
+ <para>This requires kernel 5.9 or newer.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>no-write-workqueue</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Bypass dm-crypt internal workqueue and process write requests synchronously. The
+ default is to queue these requests and process them asynchronously.</para>
+
+ <para>This requires kernel 5.9 or newer.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>skip=</option></term>
<listitem><para>How many 512-byte sectors of the encrypted data to skip at the