linux-stable/net
Hannes Frederic Sowa 602582ca7a ipv6: optimize link local address search
ipv6_link_dev_addr sorts newly added addresses by scope in
ifp->addr_list. Smaller scope addresses are added to the tail of the
list. Use this fact to iterate in reverse over addr_list and break out
as soon as a higher scoped one showes up, so we can spare some cycles
on machines with lot's of addresses.

The ordering of the addresses is not relevant and we are more likely to
get the eui64 generated address with this change anyway.

Suggested-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-19 19:55:50 -08:00
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9p Nothing really exciting: some groundwork for changing virtio endian, and 2013-11-15 13:28:47 +09:00
802 neigh: use NEIGH_VAR_INIT in ndo_neigh_setup functions. 2014-01-16 11:31:58 -08:00
8021q vlan: Fix header ops passthru when doing TX VLAN offload. 2013-12-31 16:23:35 -05:00
appletalk net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
atm net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
ax25 net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
batman-adv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-01-18 00:55:41 -08:00
bluetooth net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
bridge bridge: move br_net_exit() to br.c 2014-01-13 23:42:39 -08:00
caif caif: __dev_get_by_index instead of dev_get_by_index to find interface 2014-01-14 18:50:47 -08:00
can net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
ceph net: 8021q/bluetooth/bridge/can/ceph: Remove extern from function prototypes 2013-10-19 19:12:11 -04:00
core net: introduce SO_BPF_EXTENSIONS 2014-01-18 19:08:58 -08:00
dcb dcb: use __dev_get_by_name instead of dev_get_by_name to find interface 2014-01-14 18:50:46 -08:00
dccp ipv4: introduce hardened ip_no_pmtu_disc mode 2014-01-13 11:22:55 -08:00
decnet net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
dns_resolver net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:57 -05:00
dsa
ethernet net: eth_type_trans() should use skb_header_pointer() 2014-01-16 15:30:31 -08:00
hsr net/hsr: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code 2013-12-17 16:32:30 -05:00
ieee802154 net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
ipv4 ipv6: make IPV6_RECVPKTINFO work for ipv4 datagrams 2014-01-19 19:53:18 -08:00
ipv6 ipv6: optimize link local address search 2014-01-19 19:55:50 -08:00
ipx net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
irda net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
iucv net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic 2013-11-20 21:52:30 -05:00
key xfrm: export verify_userspi_info for pkfey and netlink interface 2013-12-16 12:54:02 +01:00
l2tp net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
lapb
llc net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2014-01-17 14:43:17 -05:00
mac802154 mac802154: fix following checkpath.pl warning Prefer pr_warn(... to pr_warning(... 2013-12-22 18:53:08 -05:00
mpls ipip: add GSO/TSO support 2013-10-19 19:36:19 -04:00
netfilter Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nftables 2014-01-16 11:44:54 -08:00
netlabel netlabel: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:56 -05:00
netlink net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
netrom net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
nfc net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
openvswitch net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom 2014-01-14 15:15:25 -08:00
packet net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
phonet net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
rds net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
rfkill rfkill: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-11 10:56:21 -05:00
rose net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
rxrpc net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
sched sch_netem: replace magic numbers with enumerate 2014-01-19 17:17:34 -08:00
sctp sctp: remove the unnecessary assignment 2014-01-16 17:31:49 -08:00
sunrpc net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom 2014-01-14 15:15:25 -08:00
tipc net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
unix net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
vmw_vsock net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
wimax wimax: remove dead code 2013-11-21 13:09:42 -05:00
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2014-01-17 14:43:17 -05:00
x25 net: add build-time checks for msg->msg_name size 2014-01-18 23:04:16 -08:00
xfrm net: replace macros net_random and net_srandom with direct calls to prandom 2014-01-14 15:15:25 -08:00
compat.c net: clamp ->msg_namelen instead of returning an error 2013-11-29 16:12:52 -05:00
Kconfig net: netprio: rename config to be more consistent with cgroup configs 2014-01-03 23:41:42 +01:00
Makefile net: move 6lowpan compression code to separate module 2014-01-15 15:36:38 -08:00
nonet.c
socket.c net: handle error more gracefully in socketpair() 2013-12-10 22:24:13 -05:00
sysctl_net.c