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From: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] flow: delayed deletion of flow cache entries
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:32:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BB1EF7A.7030407@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100330122217.GF5731@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:12:41PM +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
>> Speed up lookups by freeing flow cache entries later. This is also in
>> preparation to have virtual entry destructor that might do more
>> work.
> 
> So how does this speed up lookups exactly?

If flow cache regeneration or shrinking is triggered in lookup,
it would previously free it in place. Now that is deferred. But
yes, it's more useful after the next patches that call the
virtual destructor. Should have explained this better.

Like said in the general description, patches 4-7 go together
and still have some problem cases. But should show where I'm
trying to go.

I'd be interested hear if the idea of patches 4-7 is good
or we could things somehow better.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 14:12 [PATCH 0/7] caching bundles, iteration 2 Timo Teras
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing policy->walk.dead Timo Teras
2010-03-29 14:43   ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30  4:55     ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 11:53       ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 12:04         ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 12:14           ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 12:21             ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 12:23               ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 12:41                 ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 12:48                   ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 13:33                     ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 14:30                       ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 14:34                         ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 14:37                       ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 14:01           ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 14:29             ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 15:36               ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-31  0:43                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 2/7] flow: structurize flow cache Timo Teras
2010-03-30 12:01   ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 12:02     ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-30 12:15       ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 3/7] flow: allocate hash table for online cpus only Timo Teras
2010-03-30 12:12   ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-31 12:32     ` Rusty Russell
2010-03-31 13:27       ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 4/7] flow: delayed deletion of flow cache entries Timo Teras
2010-03-30 12:22   ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 12:32     ` Timo Teräs [this message]
2010-03-30 12:36       ` Herbert Xu
2010-03-30 12:43         ` Timo Teräs
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 5/7] flow: virtualize get and entry deletion methods Timo Teras
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] xfrm: cache bundles instead of policies for outgoing flows Timo Teras
2010-03-29 14:12 ` [PATCH 7/7] xfrm: remove policy garbage collection Timo Teras

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