Re: [PATCH] tcp: md5 signature check scaling

[Dmitry Popov]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a huge patch :(
>
> Reading changelog, I dont understand what you did, and why you did this.
>
> You want to avoid taking the socket lock ? But we need to take it anyway
> to process packets.

Hi.

Well, I removed the dependence on socket lock from md5* functions. Yes
we need to take it to process packets, but sockets in LISTEN state may
process them without socket lock(patch coming soon). And I find md5
signature check scaling interesting even without LISTEN state scaling
patch.

Regards,
Dmitry.
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