Question: No cache/hash support for qdisc and class

[roopa]

On 9/17/15, 8:05 AM, Andy DeWolfe wrote:
> Hi all, first time posting.
>
> Back in Nov 2012, Roopa Prabhu submitted patches to "Add hash support to libnl caches" and "adds keygen functions to link, neigh and route objects".
>
> Is there any reason why this was not ( or should not be ) extended to qdisc and class objects?
>
> I'm dealing with a tc model that has thousands of qdiscs and nl_cache_refill is taking 10+ seconds.  I've implemented my own keygen rountine for qdisc that drops that down to under 1 second, but I'm just curious why this functionality does not already exist.
I don't see any reason why it cannot be used. When I submitted these 
patches, we targeted only a few caches because those were the only ones 
we used heavily and were able to test it.

Glad to know that it is works well for qdiscs as well.