From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: patricia tries vs. hash for routing?
Date: 28 Oct 2003 13:29:54 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bnlr0i$prj$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030919233730.75969de6.davem@redhat.com
In article <20030919233730.75969de6.davem@redhat.com>,
David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
| On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:48:37 -0700
| Kristen Carlson <kristenc@cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
|
| > I was looking through some very old mail list discussions (1996!) on this
| > topic, and the feeling then was that the code was optimal for < 60,000 routes.
| > Given that much has happened since then, is it still a fair assumption to say
| > that the linux routing algorithm is optimized for < 60,000 routes, but a
| > more BSD-like algorithm works better for > 60,000 routes?
|
| That's not true at all, the current code can handle many more than
| 60,000 routes.
I don't think "optimized for" meant it wouldn't handle more, just that
performance would degrade.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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2003-09-19 21:48 patricia tries vs. hash for routing? Kristen Carlson
2003-09-20 6:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-28 13:29 ` bill davidsen [this message]
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2003-09-18 17:29 Kristen Carlson
2003-09-19 3:17 ` David S. Miller
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