netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] crypto: allow allocation of percpu crypto transforms

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:38:59 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	klassert@...hematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] crypto: allow allocation of percpu crypto
	transforms

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:25:02AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
> If, in those changes, I was removing atomics to make rule insert and
> delete faster, making more TFM allocs happen might be a big no-no :)

Fair enough.  But it looks like this stuff only exists because of
the spinlock on the hash which shash will get rid of anyway.

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