Re: [PATCH] Performance Improvement in CRC16 Calculations.

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Sat Aug 25 2018 - 22:37:20 EST



Herbert,

> I don't think this is safe unless you do some kind of locking
> which would slow down the data path. The easiest fix would be
> to keep the old tfm around forever, or use RCU if RCU read locking
> is acceptable to your use-case.

You're right. There's a small race there.

Patch series coming...

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering