docs/167382: geli.8 out of sync after r226840 re: kernel threads
John W. O'Brien
john at saltant.com
Fri Apr 27 23:10:11 UTC 2012
>Number: 167382
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: geli.8 out of sync after r226840 re: kernel threads
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 27 23:10:10 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John W. O'Brien
>Release: 9-STABLE
>Organization:
Saltant Solutions
>Environment:
FreeBSD nippl.y.saltant.net 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Mon Apr 9 07:44:49 EDT 2012 root at nippl.y.saltant.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIPPL amd64
>Description:
r226840 did not update description of affected behavior in geli(8) manpage.
>How-To-Repeat:
man geli
Search for "kern.geom.eli.threads".
Observe that following r226840, number of threads is not limited when, e.g., AESNI instructions are available.
>Fix:
Strike line stating that only one thread will be started when using hardware crypto acceleration.
Patch attached with submission follows:
Index: geli.8
===================================================================
--- geli.8 (revision 234740)
+++ geli.8 (working copy)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd March 4, 2012
+.Dd April 27, 2012
.Dt GELI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -692,7 +692,6 @@
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, a CPU-pinned thread will be started for every active CPU.
.It Va kern.geom.eli.batch : No 0
When set to 1, can speed-up crypto operations by using batching.
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