netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Add early demux handler for UDP unicast

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Date:   Wed, 08 Mar 2017 12:11:43 -0700
From:   Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipv6: Add early demux handler for UDP
 unicast

On 2017-03-08 11:40, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Well, this 'optimization' actually hurts when UDP sockets are not
> connected, since this adds an extra cache line miss per incoming 
> packet.
> 
> (DNS servers for example)

Hi Eric

Thanks for your comments. Would it be preferable to disable early demux 
for the
servers with large unconnected workloads in that case?

> 
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan 
>> <subashab@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
> 
>> +
>> +	if (dst)
>> +		dst = dst_check(dst, 0);
> 
> 
> IPv6 uses a cookie to validate dst, not 0.

I'll update this and send v2.

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