2002-09-26 00:58:54

by Nivedita Singhvi

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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification

"David S. Miller" wrote:

> Well, true - we have per hashchain locks, but are we now adding
> the times we need to lookup something on this chain because we now
> have additional info other than the route, is what I was
> wondering..?
>
> That's what I meant by "extending the lookup key", consider if we
> took "next protocol, src port, dst port" into account.

Aah!. thick head <-- understanding.

thanks,
Nivedita