* Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-11-09 14:23 > I give a big NACK to this patch. > > By moving fwmark outside of union, you basically touch more cache lines in > lookups. I have many machines doing XX.XXX of lookups per second, with long > chains, already using 10% of CPU. I am sure a lot of other machines would > suffer with this patch, especially machines with 32 bytes cache lines. > > For IPV4 lookups, compare offset of fwmark before your patch and after. > The size of ip6_u is so large that moving fwmark after nl_u union is not an > option. Many packets in flight on the Internet are still IPV4.
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