netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing policy->walk.dead

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Message-ID: <20100330143713.GA6964@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:37:13 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Timo Teräs <timo.teras@....fi>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing
	policy->walk.dead

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 04:33:52PM +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:
>
> It also seems that the by-index hash is also used when
> generating new index. It's to double check that the index
> is unique. So deleting the by-index hash from per-socket
> policies seems tricky.
>
> Removing bydst hashing should be trivial.

Yes that makes sense.
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