rtnetlink: speedup rtnl_dump_ifinfo()

When handling large number of netdevice, rtnl_dump_ifinfo()
is very slow because it has O(N^2) complexity.

Instead of scanning one single list, we can use the 256 sub lists
of the dev_index hash table.

This considerably speedups "ip link" operations

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2009-10-24 06:13:17 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 8d5b2c084d
commit 7c28bd0b8e
3 changed files with 29 additions and 17 deletions

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@@ -193,18 +193,15 @@ static struct list_head ptype_all __read_mostly; /* Taps */
DEFINE_RWLOCK(dev_base_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_base_lock);
#define NETDEV_HASHBITS 8
#define NETDEV_HASHENTRIES (1 << NETDEV_HASHBITS)
static inline struct hlist_head *dev_name_hash(struct net *net, const char *name)
{
unsigned hash = full_name_hash(name, strnlen(name, IFNAMSIZ));
return &net->dev_name_head[hash & ((1 << NETDEV_HASHBITS) - 1)];
return &net->dev_name_head[hash & (NETDEV_HASHENTRIES - 1)];
}
static inline struct hlist_head *dev_index_hash(struct net *net, int ifindex)
{
return &net->dev_index_head[ifindex & ((1 << NETDEV_HASHBITS) - 1)];
return &net->dev_index_head[ifindex & (NETDEV_HASHENTRIES - 1)];
}
/* Device list insertion */