netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Deconstruct struct fib

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Message-Id: <20120731.144346.118118110436079421.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:43:46 -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 0/7] Deconstruct struct fib_result

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:27:40 -0700

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:18 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> This patch set tries to move towards reducing struct fib_result down
>> to it's absolute minimum.
>>
>> The eventual idea is to make it so that fib_lookup() simply
>> returns a "struct fib_nh *" and pointer encoded errnos, instead
>> of writing into a complicated structure as the return value on
>> the stack as is done now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> I tested these patches most of yesterday and I haven't seen any
> issues.  Then again I haven't seen much of an improvement either.
> 
> Tested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>

Thanks for testing.

I'm putting this patch set to the side until I can find a way
to get past the tclassid barrier and also make it show some
difference performance wise.
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