From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:12:40 +0100
> [PATCH] INET : IPV4 UDP lookups converted to a 2 pass algo > > Some people want to have many UDP sockets, binded to a single port but many > different addresses. We currently hash all those sockets into a single chain. > Processing of incoming packets is very expensive, because the whole chain > must > be examined to find the best match. > > I chose in this patch to hash UDP sockets with a hash function that take into > account both their port number and address : This has a drawback because we > need two lookups : one with a given address, one with a wildcard (null) > address. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eric, I've applied this, thanks again. Could I trouble you to cook up an ipv6 version of this patch? Thanks a lot. - 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
