ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention

On a high-traffic router with many processors and many IPv6 dst
entries, soft lockup in fib6_run_gc() can occur when number of
entries reaches gc_thresh.

This happens because fib6_run_gc() uses fib6_gc_lock to allow
only one thread to run the garbage collector but ip6_dst_gc()
doesn't update net->ipv6.ip6_rt_last_gc until fib6_run_gc()
returns. On a system with many entries, this can take some time
so that in the meantime, other threads pass the tests in
ip6_dst_gc() (ip6_rt_last_gc is still not updated) and wait for
the lock. They then have to run the garbage collector one after
another which blocks them for quite long.

Resolve this by replacing special value ~0UL of expire parameter
to fib6_run_gc() by explicit "force" parameter to choose between
spin_lock_bh() and spin_trylock_bh() and call fib6_run_gc() with
force=false if gc_thresh is reached but not max_size.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/ip6_fib.h b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
index 2a601e7da1bf..48ec25a7fcb6 100644
--- a/include/net/ip6_fib.h
+++ b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ extern void			inet6_rt_notify(int event, struct rt6_info *rt,
 						struct nl_info *info);
 
 extern void			fib6_run_gc(unsigned long expires,
-					    struct net *net);
+					    struct net *net, bool force);
 
 extern void			fib6_gc_cleanup(void);