netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Deconstruct struct fib

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:27:40 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Deconstruct struct fib_result

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:18 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> This patch set tries to move towards reducing struct fib_result down
> to it's absolute minimum.
>
> The eventual idea is to make it so that fib_lookup() simply
> returns a "struct fib_nh *" and pointer encoded errnos, instead
> of writing into a complicated structure as the return value on
> the stack as is done now.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

I tested these patches most of yesterday and I haven't seen any
issues.  Then again I haven't seen much of an improvement either.

Tested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
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