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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2016-04-01 08:52:12 -0700
committerSubash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>2016-11-28 14:42:09 -0700
commit68610ce9d9f2b7c1d455b529090ca0dab83a3153 (patch)
tree3dfcdb45a872dd7501fbd7e1bc9d0d63e8fa506d /include/net
parent9aa1df0cf5ffb58b52b55b4fe2ea6531f795e186 (diff)
net: add SOCK_RCU_FREE socket flag
We want a generic way to insert an RCU grace period before socket freeing for cases where RCU_SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is adding too much overhead. SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU strict rules force us to take a reference on the socket sk_refcnt, and it is a performance problem for UDP encapsulation, or TCP synflood behavior, as many CPUs might attempt the atomic operations on a shared sk_refcnt UDP sockets and TCP listeners can set SOCK_RCU_FREE so that their lookup can use traditional RCU rules, without refcount changes. They can set the flag only once hashed and visible by other cpus. CRs-Fixed: 1094434 Change-Id: Ib4967b801cc5b48c8ac4793b7a03fbfafba2234a Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Tested-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Git-commit: a4298e4522d687a79af8f8fbb7eca68399ab2d81 Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git [subashab@codeaurora.org: resolve trivial merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
-rw-r--r--include/net/sock.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index fca6e414f844..0e49452f5c48 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ struct sock {
int (*sk_backlog_rcv)(struct sock *sk,
struct sk_buff *skb);
void (*sk_destruct)(struct sock *sk);
+ struct rcu_head sk_rcu;
};
#define __sk_user_data(sk) ((*((void __rcu **)&(sk)->sk_user_data)))
@@ -739,6 +740,7 @@ enum sock_flags {
*/
SOCK_FILTER_LOCKED, /* Filter cannot be changed anymore */
SOCK_SELECT_ERR_QUEUE, /* Wake select on error queue */
+ SOCK_RCU_FREE, /* wait rcu grace period in sk_destruct() */
};
#define SK_FLAGS_TIMESTAMP ((1UL << SOCK_TIMESTAMP) | (1UL << SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE))