netdev - Re: [IPV4] ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slow

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Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:11:30 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IPV4] ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slow

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:30:02 +0100
> 
>> I noticed "ip route list cache x.y.z.t" can be *very* slow.
>>
>> While strace-ing -T it I also noticed that first part of route cache is
>> fetched quite fast :
>  ...
>> The following patch corrects this performance/latency problem, removing quadratic behavior.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
> 
> I think removing quadratic behavior is a bug fix, thus applied
> to net-2.6, thanks Eric :-)

You are the boss :)

I had another patch to submit, so I based it no net-2.6, please just say me if 
you prefer a net-2/6.25 one, as it's not a critical bug fix...

Thank you

[IPV4] ROUTE: fix rcu_dereference() uses in /proc/net/rt_cache

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>


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