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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec-next] xfrm: state lookup can be lockless
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:52:58 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 03:45:26PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> This is called from the packet input path, we get lock contention
> if many cpus handle ipsec in parallel.
> 
> After recent rcu conversion it is safe to call __xfrm_state_lookup
> without the spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Applied to ipsec-next, thanks a lot!