netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net 0/2] ipv6: Avoid restarting fib6_lookup() for RTF

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Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:10:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kafai@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net 0/2] ipv6: Avoid restarting fib6_lookup() for
 RTF_CACHE hit

From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:12:10 -0700

> I am trying to understand why there is a need to restart fib6_lookup() after
> getting rt with RTF_CACHE.
> 
> I have adapted the davem's udpflood test
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net_test_tools.git) to
> support IPv6 and here is the result:
> 
> #root > time ./udpflood -l 20000000 -c 250 2401:db00:face:face::2
> 
> Before:
> real    0m33.224s
> user    0m2.941s
> sys     0m30.232s
> 
> After:
> real    0m31.517s
> user    0m2.938s
> sys     0m28.536s

If you are serious about seeing these patches integrated, you must
freshly repost this series and provide a proper "Signed-off-by: " tag
for yourself in the commit messages.
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