Remember my old issue about dm-crypt making system unresponsive? #166
Turns out I am not the only one who found that issue: https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryption/
By disabling dm-crypt work queues it is possible to to significantly improve latency and even throughput.
Latency graph: (from cloudflare article)

Red: dm-crypt
Blue: dm-crypt but workqueues are disabled
Green: Plain disk
Since linux-zen is latency focused I think the dm-crypt workqueues should be disabled by default.