Jonas Rebmann
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The original driver first unregisters then re-registers all multicast addresses in the struct net_device_ops::ndo_set_rx_mode() callback. As the networking stack calls ndo_set_rx_mode() if a single multicast address change occurs, a significant amount of time may be used to first unregister and then re-register unchanged multicast addresses. This leads to performance issues when tracking large numbers of multicast addresses. Replace the unregister and register loop and the hand crafted mc_addr_list list handling with __dev_mc_sync(), to only update entries which have changed. On profiling with an fsl_dpa NIC, this patch presented a speedup of around 40 when successively setting up 2000 multicast groups using setsockopt(), without drawbacks on smaller numbers of multicast groups. Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.