From: Jeff Barnhill <0xeff...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 20:23:57 +0000
> icmp6_send() function is expensive on systems with a large number of > interfaces. Every time it’s called, it has to verify that the source > address does not correspond to an existing anycast address by looping > through every device and every anycast address on the device. This can > result in significant delays for a CPU when there are a large number of > neighbors and ND timers are frequently timing out and calling > neigh_invalidate(). > > Add anycast addresses to a global hashtable to allow quick searching for > matching anycast addresses. This is based on inet6_addr_lst in addrconf.c. > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Barnhill <0xeff...@gmail.com> Applied, thank you.
