David Lebrun says:
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Performances improvement for IPv6 Segment Routing
This patch series improves the performances of IPv6 SR by optimizing skb head
reallocation and extending the use of dst_cache. The overall performances improve
by 35%.
Before patch series (SRH encap):
Result: OK:
7348320(
c7347271+d1048) usec,
5000000 (1000byte,0frags)
680427pps 5443Mb/sec (5443416000bps) errors: 0
After patch series (SRH encap):
Result: OK:
4774543(
c4774084+d459) usec,
5000000 (1000byte,0frags)
1047220pps 8377Mb/sec (8377760000bps) errors: 0
Baseline for plain IPv6 forwarding:
Result: OK:
4244144(
c4243722+d422) usec,
5000000 (1000byte,0frags)
1178093pps 9424Mb/sec (9424744000bps) errors: 0
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>