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    net: get rid of rtable->idev · 72cdd1d9
    Eric Dumazet authored
    It seems idev field in struct rtable has no special purpose, but adding
    extra atomic ops.
    
    We hold refcounts on the device itself (using percpu data, so pretty
    cheap in current kernel).
    
    infiniband case is solved using dst.dev instead of idev->dev
    
    Removal of this field means routing without route cache is now using
    shared data, percpu data, and only potential contention is a pair of
    atomic ops on struct neighbour per forwarded packet.
    
    About 5% speedup on routing test.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
    Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
    Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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