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Commit 4cba259f authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'unified-tunnel-dst-caching'



Paolo Abeni says:

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net: unify dst caching for tunnel devices

This patch series try to unify the dst cache implementations currently
present in the kernel, namely in ip_tunnel.c and ip6_tunnel.c, introducing a
new generic implementation, replacing the existing ones, and then using
the new implementation in other tunnel devices which currently lack it.

The new dst implementation is compiled, as built-in, only if any device using
it is enabled.

Caching the dst for the tunnel remote address gives small, but measurable,
performance improvement when tunneling over ipv4 (in the 2%-4% range) and
significant ones when tunneling over ipv6 (roughly 60% when no
fragmentation/segmentation take place and the tunnel local address
is not specified).

v2:
- move the vxlan dst_cache usage inside the device lookup functions
- fix usage after free for lwt tunnel moving the dst cache storage inside
  the dst_metadata,
- sparse codying style cleanup
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents 64f63d59 3c1cb4d2
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