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Date:	Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:22:20 +0200
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Fan Du <fan.du@...driver.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xfrm: Make xfrm_state timer monotonic

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:57:05PM +0800, Fan Du wrote:
> xfrm_state timer should be independent of system clock change,
> so switch to monotonic clock base.
> 

I think a monotonic timer will reintroduce a bug on suspend/resume
that was fixed by commit 9e0d57fd6
(xfrm: SAD entries do not expire correctly after suspend-resume)

Please make sure that this does not happen.
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