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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: implement socket filter
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:19:13 +0100
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Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 =C3=A0 17:51 +0000, Alban Crequy a =C3=A9crit =
:
> Le Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:22:41 +0100,
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit :

> > Any idea on performance cost adding sk_filter() call ?
>=20
> Ian will write a performance test and repost the patch with some stat=
s.
> I don't know about the performance cost.

Dont spend time on this, it was more a question for myself ;)

Cost should be very small, unless complex filter is used, and I have a
JIT compiler for BPF on x86_64, will post it when net-next-2.6 reopens.