On 10/22/2018 07:12 PM, Jeff Barnhill wrote:
> icmp6_send() function is expensive on systems with a large number of
> interfaces. Every time it’s called, it has to verify that the source
> address does not correspond to an existing anycast address by looping
> through every device and every anycast address on the device. This can
> result in significant delays for a CPU when there are a large number of
> neighbors and ND timers are frequently timing out and calling
> neigh_invalidate().
>
> Add anycast addresses to a global hashtable to allow quick searching for
> matching anycast addresses. This is based on inet6_addr_lst in addrconf.c.
>
I do not see this patch being netns aware ?
Also I believe you misunderstood what was stored in net->ifindex
You can look at dev_new_index() for what I mean.
