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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 21:03:10 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>
Cc:        Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>, Luigi Iannone <Luigi.Iannone@lip6.fr>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MPLS
Message-ID:  <20020531210152.V26528-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CF81DD2.8D76F8DE@pipeline.ch>

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On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> I'm axing that right now and will provide a tcp_hostcache that will
> assume that role (tcp is the only consumer of rt_metrics, except for
> rmx_mtu and rmx_pksent). By moving this every node/leaf in the routing
> table shrinks by 48 bytes. On a default free view of the Internet this
> gives us a whopping 5.5 Mbytes in kernel memory savings (110k routes).
>
> --
> Andre

Hrm.  Once you've cut the route metrics out of the route entries, is there
anything preventing you from doing away with cloned routes alltogether? :)

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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