netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: sysctl to restrict candidate source addresses

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:47:45 +0900
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ek@...gle.com, hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com,
	hannes@...essinduktion.org, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: sysctl to restrict candidate source
 addresses

David Miller wrote:

> So we should look at a way at making the new behavior the default, and
> in fact that makes sense and we can even optimize this piece of saddr
> selection code to not do an iteration over all devices in the system
> for no reason at all.  It can just do a quick dev_get_by_index() and
> work with that.
> 

I agree.  I've cooked up a patch for that optimization, so that Eric
can rebase his patch.

Regards,

-- 
Hideaki Yoshifuji <hideaki.yoshifuji@...aclelinux.com>
Technical Division, MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION
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