From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:11:13 +0200
> Not sure but as I see it: ... > The __dev_get_by_index() can be expensive with > more than a 1k interfaces but the hash generally > does well so I don't see much of a problem. Whilst this does save us 4 bytes on 64-bit, I fear it will be significantly more expensive to do things this way rather than a device pointer and refcount held to the SKB. What do you think, relative cost wise? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html