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?
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