From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:07:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:06:59 -0500 Received: from Cantor.suse.de ([194.112.123.193]:28169 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:06:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 05:06:49 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: jamal Cc: Andi Kleen , Ben Greear , linux-kernel , "netdev@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Message-ID: <20010107050649.A14637@gruyere.muc.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010107042959.A14330@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hadi@cyberus.ca on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:00:10PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:00:10PM -0500, jamal wrote: > Not to stray from the subject, Ben's effort is still needed. I think real > numbers are useful instead of claims like it "displayed faster" The problem with old ifconfig was really visible, old ifconfig needed several minutes to setup. It was slow enough that "visual benchmarking" worked very well. With the fixed ifconfig it scrolls without too annoying delays. The ifconfig could be tuned even more by adding a hash table, but it didn't look necessary (and frankly nobody wants to invest too much work into it, given that ip is far superior) Note that the alias case is different from thousands of devices -- alias works via SIOCGIFCONF while devices work via /proc/net/dev. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/