From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@oss.sgi.com" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:29:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010107042959.A14330@gruyere.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A578F27.D2A9DF52@candelatech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A578F27.D2A9DF52@candelatech.com>; from greearb@candelatech.com on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:33:27PM -0700
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> I'm hoping that I can get a few comments on this code. It was added
> to (significantly) speed up things like 'ifconfig -a' when running with
> 4000 or so VLAN devices. It should also help other instances with lots
> of (virtual) devices, like FrameRelay, ATM, and possibly virtual IP
> interfaces. It probably won't help 'normal' users much, and in it's final
> form, should probably be a selectable option in the config process.
>
> Anyway, let me know what you think!
Does it make any significant different with the ifconfig from newest nettools? I
removed a quadratic algorithm from ifconfig's device parsing, and with that I was
able to display a few thousand alias devices on a unpatched kernel in reasonable time.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 8:12 [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks) Ben Greear
2001-01-06 21:33 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Ben Greear
2001-01-06 23:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 4:06 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 13:42 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission Alan Cox
2001-01-07 15:33 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 16:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 17:32 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 19:02 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 18:53 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 19:30 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 22:40 ` 5116
2001-01-08 2:19 ` David Ford
2001-01-09 20:25 ` Christopher E. Brown
2001-01-10 2:47 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:21 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:00 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-07 19:10 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:24 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-08 0:21 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:37 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:53 ` jamal
2001-01-07 5:36 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) David S. Miller
2001-01-07 3:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-07 6:15 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 10:22 ` David Ford
2001-01-07 12:01 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-08 5:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 6:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-08 6:26 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 6:57 ` David Ford
2001-01-08 13:08 ` jamal
2001-01-09 13:28 ` Blu3Viper
2001-01-08 6:13 ` Blu3Viper
2001-01-07 12:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-07 12:19 ` David Ford
2001-01-07 16:56 ` jamal
2001-01-07 17:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-01-07 18:02 ` routable interfaces WAS( " jamal
2001-01-07 19:21 ` routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (DoesNOT " Ben Greear
2001-01-07 18:29 ` jamal
2001-01-07 18:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-01-07 19:05 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:19 ` routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOT " Sandy Harris
2001-01-07 20:42 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-08 0:37 ` jamal
2001-01-08 5:25 ` routable interfaces WAS( Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup(DoesNOTmeet " Ben Greear
2001-01-08 13:05 ` jamal
2001-01-07 3:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-01-07 4:00 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet " jamal
2001-01-07 4:06 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 5:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 11:40 ` [little bit OT] ip _IS_ _NOT_ ifconfig and route ! (was Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)) Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-01-07 11:50 ` David S. Miller
2001-01-07 13:47 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission Alan Cox
2001-01-07 16:12 ` jamal
2001-01-07 16:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 15:56 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) jamal
2001-01-07 16:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-01-07 16:36 ` jamal
2001-01-07 19:54 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumissionpolicy!) Ben Greear
2001-01-07 6:24 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 5:29 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 6:22 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Ben Greear
2001-01-07 5:27 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-07 8:11 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) (Benchmarks) Ben Greear
2001-01-07 7:15 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-08 7:00 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (New Benchmarks) David S. Miller
2001-01-08 16:26 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-08 16:50 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 16:27 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 13:50 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission Alan Cox
2001-01-07 16:44 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-01-07 19:09 ` Ben Greear
2001-01-07 5:40 ` [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) David S. Miller
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