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Date:      Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:40:19 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, FreeBSD Net <net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: it's the output, not ack coalescing (Re: TSO and FreeBSD vs Linux)
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 14 August 2013 04:47, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
>>   And we should invalidate this info on ARP/route changes, or connection
>>  will be lost in such cases, am I right?.. So, on each such event code
>>  should look into all sockets and check, if routing/ARP information is
>> still
>>  valid for them. Or we should store lists of sockets in routing and ARP
>>  tables... I don't know, what is worse.
>>
>
> .. or per-CPU copies of the ARP table.. ?

Local cache at each consumer and check a generation number to see if
it needs to be re-validated before using.  The obvious problem with
this though is that big networks tend to kill your caches.

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