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Merge branch 'sched_rcu'
John Fastabend says:
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net/sched rcu classifiers and tcf
This series converts the tcf_proto usage to RCU.
This requires updating each classifier individually to handle the
new copy/update requirement and also to update the core list
traversals. This makes the assumption that updates to the tables
are infrequent in comparison to the packet per second being
classified. On a 10Gbps running near line rate we can easily
produce 12+ million packets per second so IMO this is a reasonable
assumption. The updates are serialized by RTNL.
I have done some basic testing on this series and do not see any
immediate splats or issues. The patch series has been running
on my dev systems for a month or so now and I've not seen any
issues. Although my configurations are not overly complicated.
My test cases at this point cover all the filters with a
tight loop to add/remove filters. Some basic estimator tests
where I add an estimator to the qdisc and verify the statistics
accurate using pktgen. And finally I have a small script to
exercise the 'tc actions' interface. Feel free to send me more
tests off list and I can run them.
This is prep work to drop the qdisc lock with the first
target being the ingress qdisc. To be done is making the
tc actions RCU safe and statistics per cpu. These patches
are in the works.
Comments:
- Checkpatch is still giving errors on some >80 char lines I know
about this. IMO the way to fix this is to restructure the sched
code to avoid being so heavily indented. But doing this here
bloats the patchset and anyways there are already lots of >80
chars in these files. I would prefer to keep the patches as is
but let me know if others think I should fix these and I will.
A follow up patch set could restructure the code and fix this
throughout the code blocks.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>