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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ajith Adapa <adapa.ajith@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regarding Routing cache
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:26:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321514818.3274.37.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADAe=+Jc0YinguPhTuv3sNA2bgEuuTpY9ocE7-_z-uKnsyC7Lw@mail.gmail.com>


Please, no private mails on this discussion. I added back netdev on CC.

Le jeudi 17 novembre 2011 à 12:09 +0530, Ajith Adapa a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry about my naive post regarding the issue.
> 
> > IPv6 has no routing cache, and wont have one, since we are trying to
> > remove IPv4 routing cache :)
> 
> But it would have performance issues right as we always check fib
> table for destination route ?
> 
> Is there any references or posts or material which takes about the
> reason for removing the ipv6 and ipv4 routing caches ?
> 

routing cache doesnt scale and was difficult to tune in some situations.

It uses a lot of memory, and doesnt fit in CPU caches.

It was a good solution in the past, but better is to get scalable algo
in the first place.

http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2011.html

http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2011_slides/davem_netconf2011.pdf

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17  5:00 Regarding Routing cache Ajith Adapa
2011-11-17  6:04 ` Ajith Adapa
2011-11-17  6:26   ` Eric Dumazet
     [not found]     ` <CADAe=+Jc0YinguPhTuv3sNA2bgEuuTpY9ocE7-_z-uKnsyC7Lw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-17  7:26       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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