[Bridge] Benchmarking bridging vs. routing on same
hardware/network
Dan Grigsby
dan at unpossible.com
Fri Jan 28 18:10:50 PST 2005
> Please try this patch, it does:
> * don't spin_lock on the update path unless entry
> is missing
> * increase size of hash table
> * use jenkins hash which might distribute better
> * run gc timer at fixed interval.
I'll build a new kernel and let you know. Thanks.
I've been working through the code and feel like I'm getting the feel of it.
The key was the NF_HOOK macro.
It's been ages since I wrote my own hash algorithm, so forgive a dumb
question: will a larger hash perform faster? I only have a handful of mac
addresses to hash. For me, ultimately this will be limited to 4 macs, one
for each interface and one for the single device attached to each Ethernet
segment.
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