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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-10-24 06:13:17 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-24 06:13:17 -0700
commit7c28bd0b8ec4d128bd7660671d1b626b0abc471f (patch)
treedbde8ba53e2059dbd6cb19aca18133b33112ddf5 /include/net
parent8d5b2c084d2e71587e30a6ef528a8a8051e59dcd (diff)
rtnetlink: speedup rtnl_dump_ifinfo()
When handling large number of netdevice, rtnl_dump_ifinfo() is very slow because it has O(N^2) complexity. Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the 256 sub lists of the dev_index hash table. This considerably speedups "ip link" operations Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/net_namespace.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index 699410142bf..0addd45038a 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ struct ctl_table_header;
struct net_generic;
struct sock;
+
+#define NETDEV_HASHBITS 8
+#define NETDEV_HASHENTRIES (1 << NETDEV_HASHBITS)
+
struct net {
atomic_t count; /* To decided when the network
* namespace should be freed.