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authorParav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>2019-09-19 17:22:19 -0500
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>2019-11-01 14:55:15 -0700
commit84c7af637512be9c3254189bd5910dae0d2a8602 (patch)
tree03d2f314cef1134aef11286f9c6b75b74345f335 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox
parentnet/mlx5e: Verify that rule has at least one fwd/drop action (diff)
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net/mlx5: Do not hold group lock while allocating FTE in software
FTE memory allocation using alloc_fte() doesn't have any dependency on the flow group. Hence, do not hold flow group lock while performing alloc_fte(). This helps to reduce contention of flow group lock. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c
index 3bbb49354829..e5591f4f19b7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_core.c
@@ -1814,6 +1814,13 @@ search_again_locked:
return rule;
}
+ fte = alloc_fte(ft, spec, flow_act);
+ if (IS_ERR(fte)) {
+ up_write_ref_node(&ft->node, false);
+ err = PTR_ERR(fte);
+ goto err_alloc_fte;
+ }
+
nested_down_write_ref_node(&g->node, FS_LOCK_PARENT);
up_write_ref_node(&ft->node, false);
@@ -1821,17 +1828,9 @@ search_again_locked:
if (err)
goto err_release_fg;
- fte = alloc_fte(ft, spec, flow_act);
- if (IS_ERR(fte)) {
- err = PTR_ERR(fte);
- goto err_release_fg;
- }
-
err = insert_fte(g, fte);
- if (err) {
- kmem_cache_free(steering->ftes_cache, fte);
+ if (err)
goto err_release_fg;
- }
nested_down_write_ref_node(&fte->node, FS_LOCK_CHILD);
up_write_ref_node(&g->node, false);
@@ -1843,6 +1842,8 @@ search_again_locked:
err_release_fg:
up_write_ref_node(&g->node, false);
+ kmem_cache_free(steering->ftes_cache, fte);
+err_alloc_fte:
tree_put_node(&g->node, false);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}