Re: [PATCH net-next 13/13] net: switch secpath to use skb extension infrastructure
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: 2018-12-11 08:06:09
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 03:50:06PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
}@@ -552,11 +517,6 @@ void __init xfrm_input_init(void) if (err) gro_cells.cells = NULL; - secpath_cachep = kmem_cache_create("secpath_cache", - sizeof(struct sec_path), - 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, - NULL);
This is not so nice. Usually we need a secpath per packet for IPsec. With removing the cache, we have to kmalloc a secpath for each packet. This might have some performance impact.