net: Convert TCP & DCCP hash tables to use RCU / hlist_nulls

RCU was added to UDP lookups, using a fast infrastructure :
- sockets kmem_cache use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and dont pay the
  price of call_rcu() at freeing time.
- hlist_nulls permits to use few memory barriers.

This patch uses same infrastructure for TCP/DCCP established
and timewait sockets.

Thanks to SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, no slowdown for applications
using short lived TCP connections. A followup patch, converting
rwlocks to spinlocks will even speedup this case.

__inet_lookup_established() is pretty fast now we dont have to
dirty a contended cache line (read_lock/read_unlock)

Only established and timewait hashtable are converted to RCU
(bind table and listen table are still using traditional locking)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2008-11-16 19:40:17 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 88ab1932ea
commit 3ab5aee7fe
13 changed files with 152 additions and 85 deletions

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@@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@ static struct proto dccp_v6_prot = {
.orphan_count = &dccp_orphan_count,
.max_header = MAX_DCCP_HEADER,
.obj_size = sizeof(struct dccp6_sock),
.slab_flags = SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
.rsk_prot = &dccp6_request_sock_ops,
.twsk_prot = &dccp6_timewait_sock_ops,
.h.hashinfo = &dccp_hashinfo,