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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: unfold two critical loops in ip_packet_match()
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:04:29 +0100
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Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Eric Dumazet wrote:
> While doing oprofile tests I noticed two loops are not properly unrolled by gcc
> 
> Using a hand coded unrolled loop provides nice speedup : ipt_do_table
> credited of 2.52 % of cpu instead of 3.29 % in tbench.

Applied, thanks Eric.