netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7 net-next-2.6] tipc: Optimization to multicast name lookup algorithm

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:45:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	allan.stephens@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7 net-next-2.6] tipc: Optimization to multicast name
 lookup algorithm

From: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:26:11 -0400

> This patch simplifies and speeds up TIPC's algorithm for identifying
> on-node and off-node destinations that overlap a multicast name
> sequence range.  Rather than traversing the list of all known name
> publications within the cluster, it now traverses the (potentially
> much shorter) list of name publications made by the node itself, and
> determines if any off-node destinations exist by comparing the sizes
> of the two lists.  (Since the node list must be a subset of the
> cluster list, a difference in sizes means that at least one off-node
> destination must exist.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>

Also applied, thanks a lot.
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