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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-10-06 17:49:21 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-10-06 18:01:33 -0700
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neigh: RCU conversion of struct neighbour
This is the second step for neighbour RCU conversion. (first was commit d6bf7817 : RCU conversion of neigh hash table) neigh_lookup() becomes lockless, but still take a reference on found neighbour. (no more read_lock()/read_unlock() on tbl->lock) struct neighbour gets an additional rcu_head field and is freed after an RCU grace period. Future work would need to eventually not take a reference on neighbour for temporary dst (DST_NOCACHE), but this would need dst->_neighbour to use a noref bit like we did for skb->_dst. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/neighbour.h')
-rw-r--r--include/net/neighbour.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
index 37845dae6488..a4538d553704 100644
--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct neigh_statistics {
#define NEIGH_CACHE_STAT_INC(tbl, field) this_cpu_inc((tbl)->stats->field)
struct neighbour {
- struct neighbour *next;
+ struct neighbour __rcu *next;
struct neigh_table *tbl;
struct neigh_parms *parms;
struct net_device *dev;
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ struct neighbour {
struct sk_buff_head arp_queue;
struct timer_list timer;
const struct neigh_ops *ops;
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
u8 primary_key[0];
};
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ struct pneigh_entry {
*/
struct neigh_hash_table {
- struct neighbour **hash_buckets;
+ struct neighbour __rcu **hash_buckets;
unsigned int hash_mask;
__u32 hash_rnd;
struct rcu_head rcu;