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Commit 1d578303 authored by Mihai Maruseac's avatar Mihai Maruseac Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv6/addrconf: speedup /proc/net/if_inet6 filling



This ensures a linear behaviour when filling /proc/net/if_inet6 thus making
ifconfig run really fast on IPv6 only addresses. In fact, with this patch and
the IPv4 one sent a while ago, ifconfig will run in linear time regardless of
address type.

IPv4 related patch: f04565dd
	 dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops
	 ...

Some statistics (running ifconfig > /dev/null on a different setup):

iface count / IPv6 no-patch time / IPv6 patched time / IPv4 time
----------------------------------------------------------------
      6250  |       0.23 s       |      0.13 s       |  0.11 s
     12500  |       0.62 s       |      0.28 s       |  0.22 s
     25000  |       2.91 s       |      0.57 s       |  0.46 s
     50000  |      11.37 s       |      1.21 s       |  0.94 s
    128000  |      86.78 s       |      3.05 s       |  2.54 s

Signed-off-by: default avatarMihai Maruseac <mmaruseac@ixiacom.com>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 48529680
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