From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Octavian Purdila Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: factorize cache clearing for batched unregister operations Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:22:08 +0200 Message-ID: <200911170922.08486.opurdila@ixiacom.com> References: <200911170149.50011.opurdila@ixiacom.com> <20091116160646.39c0a1ac@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from ixro-out-rtc.ixiacom.com ([92.87.192.98]:21923 "EHLO ixro-ex1.ixiacom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755326AbZKQHZd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:25:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091116160646.39c0a1ac@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 02:06:46 you wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:49:49 +0200 > > Octavian Purdila wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila > > --- > > net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 11 ++++++----- > > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > And what about IPV6? > IPv6 did not appear during profiling my simple dummy test and also a quick scan through the code did not reveal anything obvious on the unregister path which could be factorized. BTW, it appears we don't have a route cache for IPv6. Right? I known we will run into other scalability issues when we will set IPv4/IPv6 addresses, and that is one of the next items on my list to profile :)