xfrm: policy: store inexact policies in an rhashtable

Switch packet-path lookups for inexact policies to rhashtable.

In this initial version, we now no longer need to search policies with
non-matching address family and type.

Next patch will add the if_id as well so lookups from the xfrm interface
driver only need to search inexact policies for that device.

Future patches will augment the hlist in each rhash bucket with a tree
and pre-sort policies according to daddr/prefix.

A single rhashtable is used.  In order to avoid a full rhashtable walk on
netns exit, the bins get placed on a pernet list, i.e. we add almost no
cost for network namespaces that had no xfrm policies.

The inexact lists are kept in place, and policies are added to both the
per-rhash-inexact list and a pernet one.

The latter is needed for the control plane to handle migrate -- these
requests do not consider the if_id, so if we'd remove the inexact_list
now we would have to search all hash buckets and then figure
out which matching policy candidate is the most recent one -- this appears
a bit harder than just keeping the 'old' inexact list for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netns/xfrm.h b/include/net/netns/xfrm.h
index 9991e5ef52cc..59f45b1e9dac 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/xfrm.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/xfrm.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/rhashtable-types.h>
 #include <linux/xfrm.h>
 #include <net/dst_ops.h>
 
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ struct netns_xfrm {
 	unsigned int		policy_count[XFRM_POLICY_MAX * 2];
 	struct work_struct	policy_hash_work;
 	struct xfrm_policy_hthresh policy_hthresh;
+	struct list_head	inexact_bins;
 
 
 	struct sock		*nlsk;