Poor IPsec performance, excessive CPU time spent in softirq

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While increasing the number of concurrent IPsec Security Associations a bottleneck in the function __xfrm4_find_bundle is observed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • IPSec

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