Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Benedict Wong
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In order to remove performance impact of having the extra u32 in every single flowi, this change removes the flowi_xfrm struct, prefering to take the if_id as a method parameter where needed. In the inbound direction, if_id is only needed during the __xfrm_check_policy() function, and the if_id can be determined at that point based on the skb. As such, xfrmi_decode_session() is only called with the skb in __xfrm_check_policy(). In the outbound direction, the only place where if_id is needed is the xfrm_lookup() call in xfrmi_xmit2(). With this change, the if_id is directly passed into the xfrm_lookup_with_ifid() call. All existing callers can still call xfrm_lookup(), which uses a default if_id of 0. This change does not change any behavior of XFRMIs except for improving overall system performance via flowi size reduction. This change has been tested against the Android Kernel Networking Tests: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/tests/+/master/net/test Signed-off-by:Benedict Wong <benedictwong@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>