1. A method comprising: determining whether an operation contained within a request received at a storage system is a long running operation or a non-long running operation based on a type of the operation, the storage system including a storage encryption processor having a first processing core and a second processing core; in response to determining that the operation is the long running operation, placing the operation in a long running operation queue for execution by the first processing core; and in response to determining that the operation is the non-long running operation, placing the operation in a non-long running operation queue for execution by the second processing core.