Hello Jonas, On Saturday 14 May 2011 16:54:56 Jonas Gorski wrote: > Since 2.6.38 the bridge module has a dependency to IPv6 if IPv6 is > enabled. Since the IPv6 module isn't exactly lightweight and bridge also > only needs a single function from IPv6, it's rather easy to create a > common "lib" module with a RCU pointer to the actual implementation, if > the IPv6 module is loaded (although slightly hackish). > > The codepath seems to be only taken when using IPv6, so there should be > no negative side effects when IPv6 isn't loaded. I did not measure how > big the performance impact is. > > Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski+open...@gmail.com>
The patch looks good at first sight, can you post it on netdev to gather some opinions from the Linux networking stack developpers? Thank you! -- Florian _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
