From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fib table algorithm performance improvement Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091005.001145.57977420.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090920133536.1511a2ad@s6510> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54613 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752009AbZJEHLu (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:11:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090920133536.1511a2ad@s6510> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:35:36 -0700 > The FIB algorithim for IPV4 is set at compile time, but kernel goes through > the overhead of function call indirection at runtime. Save some > cycles by turning the indirect calls to direct calls to either > hash or trie code. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied to net-next-2.6