netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: state: do not acquire lock in get

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Date:   Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:35:29 +0100
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: state: do not acquire lock in get_mtu
 helpers

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 01:23:58PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Once flow cache gets removed the mtu initialisation happens for every skb
> that gets an xfrm attached, so this lock starts to show up in perf.
> 
> It is not obvious why this lock is required -- the caller holds
> reference on the state struct, type->destructor is only called from the
> state gc worker (all state structs on gc list must have refcount 0).
> 
> xfrm_init_state already has been called (else private data accessed
> by type->get_mtu() would not be set up).
> 
> So just remove the lock -- the race on the state (DEAD?) doesn't
> matter (could change right after dropping the lock too).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

Applied to ipsec-next, thanks Florian!