On 14.08.2013 19:48, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 05:40:28PM +0200, Marko Zec wrote:
On Wednesday 14 August 2013 14:40:24 Luigi Rizzo wrote:
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 04:15:25PM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
...
FWIW, apparently we already have that infrastrucure in place - if_rele()
calls if_free_internal() only when the last reference to the ifnet is
dropped, so with little care this should be usable for caching ifp pointers
w/o fears for kernel crashes mentioned above.
maybe Alexander was referring to holding references to the rte entries
returned as a result of the lookup. The rte holds a reference to the ifp.
Yes. Since there is the only refcount which is protected (and is also a
huge performance killer).
Btw, there is a picture describing IPv4 packet flow from my
still-not-written post related network stack performance,
maybe it can be useful: http://static.ipfw.ru/images/freebsd_ipv4_flow.png
cheers
luigi
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