Hi :) On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:41, Łukasz Czyż <perlowy.dzem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > I implemented stateful IPv6-IPv4 NAT translator which works on top of > netfilter. It is fully functional now, congratulations! A nice achievement IMHO.... :) is it merged with linux kernel mainline? >I only have a doubt about > criterion when to declare function as inline. Should all functions > which are used during packet translation (so they may be called very > frequently) be inlined? perhaps network guys know better, but I think inlining as we all know, prevent code path to do jumps. And that will code execution faster, especially when it happen many many times (read: millions or more). And likely they will stay at the same L1 i-cache or at least nearby...so that's nice too :) IIRC too, "jmp" will screw branch prediction and sometimes will make pipeline stall.....So, all in all, it's a matter about speeding about code path, especially fast path like what you do. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
