netdev - Re: DST_NOHASH flag and IPsec transformers routing tables

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Message-ID: <20071129025922.GA20723@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:59:22 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ian Brown <ianbrn@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DST_NOHASH flag and IPsec transformers routing tables - need some clarification

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:55:19PM +0200, Ian Brown wrote:
>
> no need to cache this entry ? because as I understand it , next
> sk_buff with the same dest IP will have to get this same
> dst_entry (the head of the list). So why not cache this head of the
> list of dst_entries ?

It's not in the routing cache because IPsec lookups are done through the
flow cache.

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