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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2014-08-02 13:47:45 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-08-03 06:49:38 +0400
commite341694e3eb57fcda9f1adc7bfea42fe080d8d7a (patch)
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parent7e1e77636e36075ebf118298855268468f1028e8 (diff)
downloadlinux-e341694e3eb57fcda9f1adc7bfea42fe080d8d7a.tar.xz
netlink: Convert netlink_lookup() to use RCU protected hash table
Heavy Netlink users such as Open vSwitch spend a considerable amount of time in netlink_lookup() due to the read-lock on nl_table_lock. Use of RCU relieves the lock contention. Makes use of the new resizable hash table to avoid locking on the lookup. The hash table will grow if entries exceeds 75% of table size up to a total table size of 64K. It will automatically shrink if usage falls below 30%. Also splits nl_table_lock into a separate mutex to protect hash table mutations and allow synchronize_rcu() to sleep while waiting for readers during expansion and shrinking. Before: 9.16% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] masked_flow_lookup 6.42% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] mod_cur_headers 6.26% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] pktgen_thread_worker 6.23% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset 4.79% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] netlink_lookup 4.37% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcpy 3.60% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] ovs_flow_extract 2.69% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] jhash2 After: 15.26% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] masked_flow_lookup 8.12% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] pktgen_thread_worker 7.92% kpktgend_0 [pktgen] [k] mod_cur_headers 5.11% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memset 4.11% kpktgend_0 [openvswitch] [k] ovs_flow_extract 4.06% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock 3.90% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] jhash2 [...] 0.67% kpktgend_0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] netlink_lookup Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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