From 7c28bd0b8ec4d128bd7660671d1b626b0abc471f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:13:17 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/net_namespace.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3