Re: suggestion for routing code improvement

[Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>]

        Hello,

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Robert Olsson wrote:

>  Well we can be happy for the well-designed routing/netlink system Linux
>  got and as you say routing software does not yet fully utilize this.
>  But I think we agree that we shouldn't have kernel to compensate for this.

        Agreed. We are not trying to insert routing daemon into kernel :)

>  I did some benchmarking/profiling on the routing lookup/cache/garbage
>  collection it seems to be well done too. Having listened to all fuzz
>  about routing lookups at GIGE speeds. :-)

        If you use another hash function for the route cache you can
even get better :) In my tests with many hosts i got 8% increase in
performance.

>  Cheers.
>
>                                               --ro

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>