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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bhaskie@gmail.com,
	bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 00:30:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100516.003045.146327908.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100507103639.4f1a51fa@nehalam>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:36:39 -0700

> On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:21:33 +0200
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Le vendredi 07 mai 2010 à 10:14 -0700, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
>> 
>> > Forget the per cpu data; the pool should just be scrapped.
>> > 
>> > The only reason the pool exists is that the crypto hash state which
>> > should just be moved into the md5_info (88 bytes).  The pseudo
>> > header can just be generated on the stack before passing to the crypto
>> > code.
>> 
>> 
>> Sure, but I'm afraid there is no generic API do do that (if we want to
>> reuse crypto/md5.c code).
> 
> It looks like the pool is just an optimization to avoid opening too
> many crypto API connections.  This should only be an issue if offloading
> MD5.

It's an issue because creating a crypto API context is expensive, so this
influences our connection rates with MD5.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-16  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <i2h571fb4001005031027y4a58c4dtfd28ddcdc08d8401@mail.gmail.com>
2010-05-04  3:30 ` TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-04 11:32   ` Ben Hutchings
2010-05-04 14:28     ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-04 16:12       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-04 17:08         ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-04 17:13           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-05 18:03             ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-05 18:53               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-06 11:55                 ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-06 12:06                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07  5:04                     ` David Miller
2010-05-07  5:32                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 17:14                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-07 17:21                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 17:36                             ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-07 21:40                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-10 14:55                                 ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-10 15:18                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-10 17:27                                     ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-11  4:08                                     ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-11  6:27                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-11  8:23                                         ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-11 20:50                                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-12  3:20                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-12 22:22                                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-12 22:24                                             ` David Miller
2010-05-16 19:53                                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-16 20:48                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-17  3:49                                           ` Bijay Singh
2010-05-17  5:03                                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-17 17:22                                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-17 20:42                                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-05-17 21:04                                                 ` [PATCH] tcp: tcp_synack_options() fix Eric Dumazet
2010-05-18  5:35                                                   ` David Miller
2010-05-16  7:30                               ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-07  8:46                     ` TCP-MD5 checksum failure on x86_64 SMP Lars Eggert
2010-05-07  8:55                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07  9:12                       ` David Miller
2010-05-07  5:39                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07  8:00                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07  8:59                       ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-07  9:37                         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 10:50                           ` Bhaskar Dutta
2010-05-07 15:18                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 15:44                               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-07 21:18                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-16  7:37                                   ` David Miller
2010-05-16  7:35                       ` David Miller

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