Chris Mi says:
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net/sched: Improve getting objects by indexes
Using current TC code, it is very slow to insert a lot of rules.
In order to improve the rules update rate in TC,
we introduced the following two changes:
1) changed cls_flower to use IDR to manage the filters.
2) changed all act_xxx modules to use IDR instead of
a small hash table
But IDR has a limitation that it uses int. TC handle uses u32.
To make sure there is no regression, we add several new IDR APIs
to support unsigned long.
v2
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Addressed Hannes's comment:
express idr_alloc in terms of idr_alloc_ext and most of the other functions
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>