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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 09:37:21 -0600

> To share numbers from recent testing I did using Vincent's modules,
> lookup times in nsec (using local_clock) with MULTIPLE_TABLES config
> disabled for IPv4 and IPv6
> 
>             IPv4    IPv6-dst    IPv6-fib6
> baseline     49        126         52
> 
> I have other cases with combinations of configs and rules, but this
> shows the best possible case.
> 
> IPv6 needs some more work to improve speeds with MULTIPLE_TABLES enabled
> (separate local and main tables unlike IPv4) and IPV6_SUBTREES enabled.

Yes, like for ipv4 sharing local and main tables will help a lot.