From: Imre Palik <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:34:29 +0100
> Removed those pieces of the packet pipeline that I don't necessarily > need one-by-one. Then measured their effect on small packet > performance. > > This was the only part that produced considerable effect. > > The pure speculation was about why the effect is more than 15% > increase in packet throughput, although the code path avoided > contains way less code than 15% of the packet pipeline. It seems, > Felix Fietkau profiled similar changes, and found my guess well > founded. Yes and that's the part being left out, the "why". That's part of what I expect in the justification. Look, we're not doing things this way. We need to find a clean and generic way to make the netfilter hooks as cheap as possible when netfilter rules are not in use. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
