On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 09:01:41AM -0500, James Morris wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > 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>
Sorry, I forgot to update the calls in af_key. Here is the corrected
version.
Cheers,
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