netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fib table algorithm performance improvement

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Message-Id: <20091005.001145.57977420.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:11:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fib table algorithm performance improvement

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:35:36 -0700

> The FIB algorithim for IPV4 is set at compile time, but kernel goes through
> the overhead of function call indirection at runtime. Save some
> cycles by turning the indirect calls to direct calls to either
> hash or trie code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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