* YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-07-29 13:13 > Well, one design consideration that I have had for several months > is performance impact. > > Previously, we directly use address, ifindex etc., not flowi, > in IPv6 routing code except for ip6_route_output(). > This patch changes them to use flowi. > I know this should work and it is a good way for abstraction. > However, initializing flowi for IPv6 is more expensive than > one for IPv4, and it would result in poor performance (especially > without CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES).
Do you have numbers for this? Personally I'm more worried about the number of locks needed for a lookup and the selection. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
