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Commit 65a206c0 authored by Chris Mi's avatar Chris Mi Committed by David S. Miller
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net/sched: Change act_api and act_xxx modules to use IDR



Typically, each TC filter has its own action. All the actions of the
same type are saved in its hash table. But the hash buckets are too
small that it degrades to a list. And the performance is greatly
affected. For example, it takes about 0m11.914s to insert 64K rules.
If we convert the hash table to IDR, it only takes about 0m1.500s.
The improvement is huge.

But please note that the test result is based on previous patch that
cls_flower uses IDR.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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