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

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Message-Id: <20120727.211528.1280331721532176100.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.duyck@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Remove the ipv4 routing cache

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:02:46 -0700 (PDT)

> Therefore one area of simplification would be to just return a pointer
> to the FIB nexthop, rather than the fib_info pointer and the nexthop
> index.  We can get to the fib_info, if we need to, via the nh_parent
> pointer of the nexthop.

So I'm about to post an RFC set of patches which show this kind
of simplification.  It gets fib_result down to two members:

	u32		tclassid;
	struct fib_nh	*nh;

If I could get rid of that tclassid it would be really nice.  But
that's hard because the tclassid is fetched from the fib_rule and
all of that lookup path is abstracted behind a common layer
that's shared between ipv4 and ipv6 so it's a bit of work changing
arg conventions.

These changes help, but only ever so slightly, in my testing.
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