netdev - Re: [PATCH] dev: use name hash for dev_seq

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Message-Id: <20111021.025538.1690130663514126869.davem@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:55:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	mihai.maruseac@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl, therbert@...gle.com, jpirko@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dbaluta@...acom.com, mmaruseac@...acom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops

From: Mihai Maruseac <mihai.maruseac@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:45:10 +0300

> Instead of using the dev->next chain and trying to resync at each call to
> dev_seq_start, use the name hash, keeping the bucket and the offset in
> seq->private field.
> 
> Tests revealed the following results for ifconfig > /dev/null
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Mihai Maruseac <mmaruseac@...acom.com>

Applied.
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