On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi Dave:
>
> This patch removes an annoying problem in xfrm_user. As it is every
> time an SA is added it probes every known algorithm in the universe.
> Now if they all existed it would be OK. However, for the ones which
> don't actually exist this causes multiple /sbin/modprobe processes to
> be spawned which slows the system down when you're adding hundreds of
> SAs.
>
> Since we know the type of algorithm required when we're adding a new
> SA, we can get away with only probing the selected algorithms. This
> is what the following patch does for xfrm_user.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
- James
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James Morris
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