netdev - Re: [PATCH] [IPSEC]: pfkey should ignore events when no listeners

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Message-Id: <20080610.142544.166544762.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [IPSEC]: pfkey should ignore events when no listeners

From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:23:10 -0400

> [IPSEC]: pfkey should ignore events when no listeners
> 
> When pfkey has no km listeners, it still does a lot of work
> before finding out there aint nobody out there.
> If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make
> a sound? In this case it makes a lot of noise:
> With this short-circuit adding 10s of thousands of SAs using
> netlink improves performance by ~10%.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>

Applied, thanks Jamal.
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