On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 20:40 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote: > Do we care about losing this optimization? It's not done in IPv4 but I > can imagine that there is some arguments that address comparisons in > IPv6 are more expensive hence this might make sense...
I do not think we care. You removed the 'optimization' in IPv4 in commit ba418fa357a7b ("soreuseport: UDP/IPv4 implementation") back in 2013 and really no one noticed. The important factor here is the number of cache lines taken to traverse the list... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html