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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:09:57 -0700
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
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"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
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