Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4: Introduce IN_DEV_NET_ROUTE_LOCALNET

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 09:27:25 +0200

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> performance profiles show a high cost in the IN_DEV_ROUTE_LOCALNET()
> call done in ip_route_input_slow(), because of multiple dereferences,
> even if cache lines are clean and available in cpu caches.
> 
> Since we already have the 'net' pointer, introduce
> IN_DEV_NET_ROUTE_LOCALNET() macro avoiding two dereferences
> (dev_net(in_dev->dev))
> 
> Also change the tests to use IN_DEV_NET_ROUTE_LOCALNET() only if saddr
> or/and daddr are loopback addresse.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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