From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: greearb@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2] iproute2: Allow 'ip addr flush' to loop more than 10 times.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:02:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100629.100226.235686154.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2A0CF3.9020204@candelatech.com>
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:10:43 -0700
> If I understand your proposal properly, this would seem to be
> somewhat O(N^2) if we have large numbers of addresses, and I'm
> hoping to support thousands of IPs with decent performance.
I am not modifying the computational complexity or cost of the
operation at all.
I'm just changing under what circumstances it gives up.
> What do you think about improving the kernel side so that we can send
> a single netlink msg to delete all addresses on an interface, and just
> let the kernel do the looping/locking needed to make it happen?
I think the current scheme isn't that bad.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-29 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-29 5:55 [iproute2] iproute2: Allow 'ip addr flush' to loop more than 10 times greearb
2010-06-29 6:12 ` David Miller
2010-06-29 6:27 ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 6:36 ` David Miller
2010-06-29 9:58 ` Andreas Henriksson
2010-06-29 14:59 ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 15:10 ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 17:02 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-29 8:03 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-06-29 15:04 ` Ben Greear
2010-06-29 15:48 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-06-29 16:30 ` Ben Greear
2010-08-04 21:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-04 21:13 ` Ben Greear
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