I just noticed that dev_get_by_index is not hashed, it is just a linear search through all interfaces. This call is made in many places in the kernel, and particularly in route.c For machines with large numbers of interfaces (VLANs for instance), this could be a real performance drag. Any reason we don't keep interfaces in a hash-table by index? Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
