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

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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:21:50 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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 08:38:59PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes exactly, it was just to get rid of the lock.
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