The comparison in ip_route_input is a hot path, by recoding the C "and" as bit operations, fewer conditional branches get generated so the code should be faster. Maybe someday Gcc will be smart enough to do this? Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/net/ipv4/route.c 2008-03-31 10:57:30.000000000 -0700 +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c 2008-03-31 11:10:44.000000000 -0700 @@ -2079,14 +2079,14 @@ int ip_route_input(struct sk_buff *skb, rcu_read_lock(); for (rth = rcu_dereference(rt_hash_table[hash].chain); rth; rth = rcu_dereference(rth->u.dst.rt_next)) { - if (rth->fl.fl4_dst == daddr && - rth->fl.fl4_src == saddr && - rth->fl.iif == iif && - rth->fl.oif == 0 && - rth->fl.mark == skb->mark && - rth->fl.fl4_tos == tos && - net_eq(dev_net(rth->u.dst.dev), net) && - rth->rt_genid == atomic_read(&rt_genid)) { + if (((rth->fl.fl4_dst ^ daddr) | + (rth->fl.fl4_src ^ saddr) | + (rth->fl.iif ^ iif) | + rth->fl.oif | + (rth->fl.mark ^ skb->mark) | + (rth->fl.fl4_tos ^ tos) | + (rth->rt_genid ^ atomic_read(&rt_genid))) == 0 && + net_eq(dev_net(rth->u.dst.dev), net)) { dst_use(&rth->u.dst, jiffies); RT_CACHE_STAT_INC(in_hit); rcu_read_unlock(); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html