netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_rt_send

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Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:52:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: ip_rt_send_redirect() optimization

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:47:48 +0200

> While doing some forwarding benchmarks, I noticed ip_rt_send_redirect() is rather
> expensive, even if send_redirects is false for the device.
> 
> Fix is to avoid two atomic ops, we dont really need to take a reference on in_dev
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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