alistair23-linux/net
Jeff Barnhill 2384d02520 net/ipv6: Add anycast addresses to a global hashtable
icmp6_send() function is expensive on systems with a large number of
interfaces. Every time it’s called, it has to verify that the source
address does not correspond to an existing anycast address by looping
through every device and every anycast address on the device.  This can
result in significant delays for a CPU when there are a large number of
neighbors and ND timers are frequently timing out and calling
neigh_invalidate().

Add anycast addresses to a global hashtable to allow quick searching for
matching anycast addresses.  This is based on inet6_addr_lst in addrconf.c.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Barnhill <0xeffeff@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-11-02 23:54:56 -07:00
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6lowpan
9p 9p/trans_fd: put worker reqs on destroy 2018-10-10 09:14:34 +09:00
802
8021q netpoll: allow cleanup to be synchronous 2018-10-19 17:01:43 -07:00
appletalk
atm Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
ax25
batman-adv
bluetooth Merge branch 'work.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-10-25 12:48:22 -07:00
bpf bpf: add tests for direct packet access from CGROUP_SKB 2018-10-19 13:49:34 -07:00
bpfilter net: bpfilter: Set user mode helper's command line 2018-10-22 19:37:36 -07:00
bridge net: bridge: remove ipv6 zero address check in mcast queries 2018-10-28 19:18:09 -07:00
caif Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
can
ceph The highlights are: 2018-10-31 14:42:31 -07:00
core net: document skb parameter in function 'skb_gso_size_check' 2018-11-02 23:34:37 -07:00
dcb
dccp Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
decnet
dns_resolver dns: Allow the dns resolver to retrieve a server set 2018-10-04 09:40:52 -07:00
dsa net: dsa: legacy: simplify getting .driver_data 2018-10-22 19:49:04 -07:00
ethernet
hsr
ieee802154
ife
ipv4 net: drop skb on failure in ip_check_defrag() 2018-11-01 13:55:30 -07:00
ipv6 net/ipv6: Add anycast addresses to a global hashtable 2018-11-02 23:54:56 -07:00
iucv Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
kcm
key
l2tp
l3mdev
lapb
llc llc: do not use sk_eat_skb() 2018-10-22 19:59:20 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: implement ieee80211_tx_rate_update to update rate 2018-10-12 13:05:40 +02:00
mac802154
mpls net/mpls: Handle kernel side filtering of route dumps 2018-10-16 00:14:07 -07:00
ncsi net/ncsi: Add NCSI Broadcom OEM command 2018-10-17 22:14:54 -07:00
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2018-10-22 20:21:30 -07:00
netlabel
netlink netlink: Add answer_flags to netlink_callback 2018-10-16 00:13:12 -07:00
netrom
nfc Merge branch 'work.tty-ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-10-24 14:43:41 +01:00
nsh
openvswitch openvswitch: Fix push/pop ethernet validation 2018-10-31 18:37:16 -07:00
packet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-06 14:43:42 -07:00
phonet
psample
qrtr
rds Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-12 21:38:46 -07:00
rfkill
rose
rxrpc Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-10-25 16:43:35 -07:00
sched net: sched: gred: pass the right attribute to gred_change_table_def() 2018-10-28 19:23:26 -07:00
sctp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-01 09:16:01 -07:00
smc net/smc: fix smc_buf_unuse to use the lgr pointer 2018-10-26 15:59:35 -07:00
strparser bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface 2018-10-15 12:23:19 -07:00
sunrpc Olga added support for the NFSv4.2 asynchronous copy protocol. We 2018-10-30 13:03:29 -07:00
switchdev
tipc Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
tls ulp: remove uid and user_visible members 2018-10-20 23:13:32 -07:00
unix Revert "net: simplify sock_poll_wait" 2018-10-23 10:57:06 -07:00
vmw_vsock
wimax
wireless nl80211: Add per peer statistics to compute FCS error rate 2018-10-12 12:56:34 +02:00
x25
xdp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-10-19 11:03:06 -07:00
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-01 09:16:01 -07:00
compat.c
Kconfig bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface 2018-10-15 12:23:19 -07:00
Makefile
socket.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-25 11:14:36 -07:00
sysctl_net.c