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Re: Route cache performance under stress

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Route cache performance under stress
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:58:47 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@xxxxxxxxx>
>    What's the do_gettimeofday for?
>
> Every packet records a timestamp.

I'm not aware of anything in IP routing that requires a timestamp for
every packet.  To me it sounds like we could rip that out too.

-Ralph


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