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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Netfilter Developers <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Network Development list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match()
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:21:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499C2766.5090904@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499C24FF.90302@cosmosbay.com>

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Patrick McHardy a écrit :
>> The interface name matching has shown up in profiles forever
>> though and we've actually already tried to optimize it IIRC.
>>
>> Eric, I'm trying to keep all the *tables files synchronized,
>> could you send me a patch updating the other ones as well
>> please?
> 
> While doing this, I found arp_tables is still using loop using
> byte operations.
> 
> Also, I could not find how iniface_mask[], outiface_mask[], iniface[]
> and outiface[] were forced to long word alignment ... 
> 
> (in struct ipt_ip, struct ip6t_ip6, struct arpt_arp)

In case of IPv4 and IPv6 they are already suitable aligned, it
simply performing the comparison in unsigned long quantities.
struct arpt_arp unfortunately doesn't properly align the interface
names, so we need to continue to do byte-wise comparisons.
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26 22:15 32 core net-next stack/netfilter "scaling" Rick Jones
2009-01-26 23:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-26 23:14   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-26 23:19   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27  9:10     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27  9:15       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-27 11:29         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 11:37           ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-27 16:23         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 17:33           ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-27 18:02             ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 19:09               ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 19:24                 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 22:17                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 22:29                     ` Rick Jones
2009-01-27 22:34                       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-27 22:43                         ` Rick Jones
2009-01-28 13:55                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-28 16:25                     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-28 17:07                       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-28 17:34                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-29 15:31                           ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match() Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 15:47                             ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-30 16:54                               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 17:27                                 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-30 17:27                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-30 17:50                                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-02-09 13:41                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-18 15:10                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-18 15:21                                       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-02-18 16:33                                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-02-18 16:52                                           ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-18 17:36                                           ` [PATCH] netfilter: xt_physdev fixes Eric Dumazet
2009-02-18 18:14                                             ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-19  8:00                                               ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two loops in physdev_mt() Eric Dumazet
2009-02-19  8:14                                                 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two loops in ip6_packet_match() Eric Dumazet
2009-02-19 10:19                                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-19 10:17                                                 ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two loops in physdev_mt() Patrick McHardy
2009-02-20 10:02                             ` [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match() Eric Dumazet
2009-02-20 10:04                               ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-09 14:57                           ` 32 core net-next stack/netfilter "scaling" Patrick McHardy
2009-02-10 18:44   ` Stephen Hemminger

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