netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 00/10] net: l3mdev: Support for sockets bound to enslaved device

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Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:15:05 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'David Ahern' <dsahern@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 00/10] net: l3mdev: Support for sockets bound
 to enslaved device

From: David Ahern
> Sent: 01 August 2017 04:13
...
> Existing code for socket lookups already pass in 6+ arguments. Rather
> than add another for the enslaved device index, the existing lookups
> are converted to use a new sk_lookup struct. From there, the enslaved
> device index becomes another element of the struct.
> 
> Patch 1 introduces sk_lookup struct and helper.

I guess that socket lookup happens quite often!
Passing the lookup parameters in a structure might have a
measurable negative effect on performance - especially if the
structure isn't passed through to other functions.

Have you made any performance mearurements?

	David