netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] net: unify dst caching for tunnel devices

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Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:22:21 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch, pshelar@...ira.com,
	jbenc@...hat.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org, therbert@...gle.com,
	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] net: unify dst caching for tunnel
 devices

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:43:52 +0100

> This patch series try to unify the dst cache implementations currently
> present in the kernel, namely in ip_tunnel.c and ip6_tunnel.c, introducing a
> new generic implementation, replacing the existing ones, and then using
> the new implementation in other tunnel devices which currently lack it.
> 
> The new dst implementation is compiled, as built-in, only if any device using
> it is enabled.
> 
> Caching the dst for the tunnel remote address gives small, but measurable,
> performance improvement when tunneling over ipv4 (in the 2%-4% range) and
> significant ones when tunneling over ipv6 (roughly 60% when no
> fragmentation/segmentation take place and the tunnel local address
> is not specified).
> 
> v2:
> - move the vxlan dst_cache usage inside the device lookup functions
> - fix usage after free for lwt tunnel moving the dst cache storage inside
>   the dst_metadata,
> - sparse codying style cleanup

Series applied, thanks for doing this work as it is a major improvement.