David S. Miller wrote: > From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:16:00 -0400 > > Yes, linux is quite a pig with 800 frame relay interfaces > > Try it with 'ip' or modern 'ifconfig' I bet your > results change. > > Funniest part is that "ifconfig -a" doesn't even use > dev_get_by_index so this whole conversation is one > big crap :-) > What does it use? And btw, I'd hash get-by-name too. The index hash is interesting because it's used so often in the kernel code, though, evidently, not in critical paths as you note. Someday I'll put a counter in to see how many times we do call it...just in case :) Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear@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
