netdev - RE: [PATCH ipsec-next 2/2] xfrm: configure policy hash table thresholds by /proc

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 10:15:03 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Steffen Klassert' <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>,
	Christophe Gouault <christophe.gouault@...nd.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH ipsec-next 2/2] xfrm: configure policy hash table
 thresholds by /proc

From: Klassert
...
> > Exporting a userland API (here by /proc) enables a user or a daemon to
> > choose a strategy according to information the kernel does not
> > necessarily have, and enables to implement various (possibly complex)
> > policies.
> >
> 
> If we add a user API for the current lookup mechanism, we will stick
> with this because we can't change it anymore without breaking userspace.
> So I don't want to add one before we finally decided on a long term
> lookup mechanism for IPsec.

You could have a user API call to find the list of available mechanisms
as well as one that returns/sets the current one.
Then there is no actual requirement to continue to support any specific one.

	David



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