netdev - Re: O(n^2) or worse ? cat /proc/net/tcp

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Message-Id: <20080327.142832.15191443.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	matti.aarnio@...iler.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: O(n^2) or worse ? cat /proc/net/tcp

From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@...iler.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:49:11 +0200

> Odd..  Another machine with slightly older kernel is definitely swifter
> although it clocks less than half of the bogomips..

The machine with the faster cpu likely has much more memory,
thus the hash tables allocated are much larger, thus the
table scan is significantly more expensive.
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