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Message-Id: <20100928.144005.260072379.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:40:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arno@...isbad.org
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next-2.6 0/5] XFRM,IPv6: Removal of RH2/HAO from
 IPsec-protected MIPv6 traffic

From: arno@...isbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:33:16 +0200

> Before following the (dumb) #ifdef path, I was about to do that but
> worried about the penalty of the additional xfrm_state_get/put_afinfo()
> calls on each packet I was about to add. Should I just reduce my amount
> of coffee or is it a valid concern?

Indeed, it is.

Even without the concern of afinfo refcounting, this test is very
heavy handed for the packet path.

Can you make it small enough that it can reasonably be inlined?
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