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Re: Route cache performance

To: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Route cache performance
From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:50:11 +0200
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Simon Kirby writes:

 > Something is definitely broken here.  Are the interrupts (or in this
 > case, NAPI) able to starve the gc somehow?

 Hmm no in 2.6 dst entries are freed via RCU callback this had problems
 but was redesigned.

 Reading your old email... Didn't you get "dst cache overflow" before
 2.6.11-bk2?

 In other case I like to have your detailed setup to see if I get any
 idea or possible can reproduced.

 Cheers.
                                        --ro
 

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