From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fan.du@windriver.com
Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] rt6i_genid
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:31:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130718.203100.1960741588589171145.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E8B273.1090002@windriver.com>
From: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:28:51 +0800
> On 2013年07月19日 11:18, David Miller wrote:
>> Although it's a correct change, it is of almost no value. %99.9999999
>> of users will be running kernels with CONFIG_XFRM enabled.
>
> Thanks. Good to know %99.99999999 users protect their networking with
> IPsec.
That is not what I said.
I said that nearly every user will be running a kernel with that
config option enabled, I did not say that they will actually be
using IPSEC.
Distributions enable all options, so that users may use any facility
that they want.
So optimizing for things like this are almost pointless.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-19 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 3:22 [DISCUSSION] rt6i_genid Fan Du
2013-07-18 9:13 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-07-18 9:28 ` Fan Du
2013-07-18 15:12 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-07-19 0:01 ` Fan Du
2013-07-19 3:18 ` David Miller
2013-07-19 3:28 ` Fan Du
2013-07-19 3:31 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-07-19 7:50 ` Fan Du
2013-07-19 9:33 ` David Miller
2013-07-22 5:43 ` [RFC PATCH net-next] net: split rt_genid for ipv4 and ipv6 Fan Du
2013-07-22 10:53 ` Steffen Klassert
2013-07-22 20:40 ` Nicolas Dichtel
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