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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2008-11-16 19:40:17 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-11-16 19:40:17 -0800
commit3ab5aee7fe840b5b1b35a8d1ac11c3de5281e611 (patch)
tree468296b7be813643248d4ca67497d6ddb6934fc6 /net/dccp/proto.c
parent88ab1932eac721c6e7336708558fa5ed02c85c80 (diff)
downloadlinux-3ab5aee7fe840b5b1b35a8d1ac11c3de5281e611.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/dccp/proto.c')
-rw-r--r--net/dccp/proto.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/dccp/proto.c b/net/dccp/proto.c
index 46cb3490d48e..1117d4d8c8f1 100644
--- a/net/dccp/proto.c
+++ b/net/dccp/proto.c
@@ -1090,8 +1090,8 @@ static int __init dccp_init(void)
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < dccp_hashinfo.ehash_size; i++) {
-		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&dccp_hashinfo.ehash[i].chain);
-		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&dccp_hashinfo.ehash[i].twchain);
+		INIT_HLIST_NULLS_HEAD(&dccp_hashinfo.ehash[i].chain, i);
+		INIT_HLIST_NULLS_HEAD(&dccp_hashinfo.ehash[i].twchain, i);
 	}
 
 	if (inet_ehash_locks_alloc(&dccp_hashinfo))