From 71cea17ed39fdf1c0634f530ddc6a2c2fc601c2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 06:52:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tcp: md5: remove spinlock usage in fast path TCP md5 code uses per cpu variables but protects access to them with a shared spinlock, which is a contention point. [ tcp_md5sig_pool_lock is locked twice per incoming packet ] Makes things much simpler, by allocating crypto structures once, first time a socket needs md5 keys, and not deallocating them as they are really small. Next step would be to allow crypto allocations being done in a NUMA aware way. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed