From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: riel@redhat.com, research@subreption.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pageexec@freemail.hu,
linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use kzfree in crypto API context initialization and key/iv handling
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:48:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090601044837.GA9220@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090531.214623.76344831.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 09:46:23PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> I don't even want to think about what this does to IPSEC rule creation
> rates, that that matters heavily for cell phone networks where
> hundreds of thousands of nodes come in and out of the server and each
> such entry requires creating 4 IPSEC rules.
I completely agree. The zeroing of metadata is gratuitous.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-31 2:57 Larry H.
2009-05-31 6:02 ` David Miller
2009-05-31 14:38 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-01 4:46 ` David Miller
2009-06-01 4:48 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2009-06-01 7:58 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-01 12:33 ` Herbert Xu
2009-05-31 14:38 ` Rik van Riel
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