Re: [PATCH] Make xfrm subsystem optional

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:26:36AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
>    Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:18:51 +0200
>    
>    Allocating it at first lookup would be racy (would need a nasty
>    spinlock at least). It may be possible at first policy setup, but
>    it's not guaranteed you can still get two 32K continuous areas. You
>    could fall back to vmalloc I guess.
> 
> Andi, you're getting rediculious.  Add a xfrm_whatever_init() call
> and allocate the table there.

Did you actually read what I wrote? Allocating on init is useless
from the bloat perspective because it's 100% equivalent to an BSS 
allocation.

-Andi