netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 2/6] net: Identfier Locator Addressing module

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:58:05 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, agartrell@...com, maheshb@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 2/6] net: Identfier Locator Addressing module

On 06/03/15 at 12:58pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
> +static struct genl_family ila_nl_family = {
> +	.id		= GENL_ID_GENERATE,
> +	.hdrsize	= 0,
> +	.name		= ILA_GENL_NAME,
> +	.version	= ILA_GENL_VERSION,
> +	.maxattr	= ILA_ATTR_MAX,
> +	.netnsok	= true,
> +};

Since you have bucket locks, you might want to see if you can
enable .parallel_ops = true to speed up the rate of map updates.

Use of rhashtable is another obvious consideration.

> +static int ila_nl_cmd_get_mapping(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
> +{
> +	struct net *net = genl_info_net(info);
> +	struct ila_net *ilan = net_generic(net, ila_net_id);
> +	struct sk_buff *msg;
> +	struct ila_cfg cfg;
> +	struct ila_map *ila;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = parse_nl_config(info, &cfg);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!msg)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

Since the message size is actually really small it might be worth
to calculate it accurately here to speed up the get.

> +#define ILA_HASH_TABLE_SIZE 1024

Already defined at the top.
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