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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (4/4) bridge: forwarding table lockless update
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:51:52 -0800
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:44:37 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> Optimize bridge forwarding table for the fastpath of updating
> an existing entry. Use RCU to find the entry and change it's time.
> Fallback to normal locking for insert. This gives about a 1/3
> improvement in packets forwarding per second on SMP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

Applied, thanks.