netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6

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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:30:32 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for
 /proc/net/ipv6_route

On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 16:20 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> I am planing to submit patches which reduce the caching of DST_HOST
> entries in the ipv6 fib next month which will result in a much smaller
> fib to walk by then.

Or, if caching is still needed, we might use a separate hash table for
this, as it is more scalable.



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