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authorOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>2009-12-26 11:51:04 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-12-26 20:43:57 -0800
commit6d2e3ea284463d5ab34e9cf2a41d0b8627b95d02 (patch)
tree86ee780b06adfe388ac64dd66ece598be69b29ec /include/net/llc.h
parent0f7b67dd9e1192976f5e5a78934c7a339ff7c45f (diff)
downloadlinux-6d2e3ea284463d5ab34e9cf2a41d0b8627b95d02.tar.gz
llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery
This patch adds a per SAP device based hash table to solve the
multicast delivery scalability issue when we have large number of
interfaces and a large number of sockets bound to the same SAP.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/llc.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/llc.h11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/llc.h b/include/net/llc.h
index 1559cf10e874..dbef5917905b 100644
--- a/include/net/llc.h
+++ b/include/net/llc.h
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ struct llc_addr {
 #define LLC_SAP_STATE_INACTIVE	1
 #define LLC_SAP_STATE_ACTIVE	2
 
+#define LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_BITS 6
+#define LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_ENTRIES (1<<LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_BITS)
+
 /**
  * struct llc_sap - Defines the SAP component
  *
@@ -56,8 +59,16 @@ struct llc_sap {
 	struct list_head node;
 	spinlock_t sk_lock;
 	struct hlist_nulls_head sk_list;
+	struct hlist_head sk_dev_hash[LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_ENTRIES];
 };
 
+static inline
+struct hlist_head *llc_sk_dev_hash(struct llc_sap *sap, int ifindex)
+{
+	return &sap->sk_dev_hash[ifindex % LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_ENTRIES];
+}
+
+
 #define LLC_DEST_INVALID         0      /* Invalid LLC PDU type */
 #define LLC_DEST_SAP             1      /* Type 1 goes here */
 #define LLC_DEST_CONN            2      /* Type 2 goes here */