netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: let trace_fib6_table

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Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2017 02:23:52 +0100 (WEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: let trace_fib6_table_lookup()
 dereference the fib table

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:31:43 +0200

> The perf traces for ipv6 routing code show a relevant cost around
> trace_fib6_table_lookup(), even if no trace is enabled. This is
> due to the fib6_table de-referencing currently performed by the
> caller.
> 
> Let's the tracing code pay this overhead, passing to the trace
> helper the table pointer. This gives small but measurable
> performance improvement under UDP flood.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Looks good, applied.