IPCOMP scratch buffer (was: [Openswan dev] IPComp)

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:50:44PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> 
> I think it would be better to go with your original idea of allocating a
> scratch buffer for each packet, based on the size of the packet.  IPComp
> is very slow path, and allocating 64k for each SA is optimizing for an
> uncommon worst case in a way which will potentially eat up a lot of memory
> (e.g. > 6MB for 100 tunnels).

What about a shared per-cpu buffer?
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