From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, joe@nall.com,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: export xfrm garbage collector thresholds via sysctl
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:40:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090727.124011.05728493.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090727193625.GD15823@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:36:25 -0400
> I think that makes sense, since it means we only keep cache entries
> for active connections, and clean them up as soon as they close
> (e.g. I don't really see the advantage to unhashing a xfrm cache
> entry only to recreate it on the next packet sent).
How is this related to the user's problem?
My impression was that they were forwarding IPSEC traffic when
running up against these limits, and that has no socket based
assosciation at all.
Making the XFRM GC limits get computed similarly to how the
ipv4/ipv6 one's do probably makes sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-27 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-27 18:22 [PATCH] xfrm: export xfrm garbage collector thresholds via sysctl Neil Horman
2009-07-27 18:37 ` David Miller
2009-07-27 19:36 ` Neil Horman
2009-07-27 19:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-07-27 20:02 ` Joe Nall
2009-07-27 20:10 ` David Miller
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