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Re: [PATCH] Add prefetches in net/ipv4/route.c

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add prefetches in net/ipv4/route.c
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:39:22 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:52:04 +0200

> [NET] : Adds prefetches in route hash list traversals.
>
> The actual code doesnt use a prefetch enabled macro like
> list_for_each_rcu(), so manually add prefetch() hints.

and the measured performance improvement is?

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