netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:00:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	alexander.duyck@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:43:53 +0200

> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 19:36 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 19:31 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:18 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> > 
>> > > I tested this patch and it looks like it runs, but still has the same
>> > > performance issue.  I did some digging into the annotation for
>> > > ip_route_intput_noref and it seems like the issue is that I am hitting
>> > > the dst_hold call in  __mkroute_input.
>> > 
>> > David suggested a percpu cache.
>> > 
>> > nh_rth_input would be allocated by alloc_percpu(struct dst *)
>> > 
>> > I can work on this.
>> 
>> Wait a minute, on input we should use the noref trick too.
>> 
> 
> Something like : (on top of latest David patch)

Grrr, I only got the local routes didn't I? :-)

That would explain everything.
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