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

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IPCOMP scratch buffer (was: [Openswan dev] IPComp)
From: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:03:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040709100213.GA12215@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:

> > 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?
> 

You can try if you like.


- James
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James Morris
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