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authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>2017-02-04 18:05:07 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-02-06 22:53:13 -0500
commitf7cdee8a79a1cb03fa9ca71b825e72f880b344e1 (patch)
treebda0a6e29e0d7748d2f7e59a8da9c5194f486b36 /net/bridge/br_private.h
parentbridge: modify bridge and port to have often accessed fields in one cache line (diff)
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bridge: move to workqueue gc
Move the fdb garbage collector to a workqueue which fires at least 10 milliseconds apart and cleans chain by chain allowing for other tasks to run in the meantime. When having thousands of fdbs the system is much more responsive. Most importantly remove the need to check if the matched entry has expired in __br_fdb_get that causes false-sharing and is completely unnecessary if we cleanup entries, at worst we'll get 10ms of traffic for that entry before it gets deleted. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_private.h')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_private.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_private.h b/net/bridge/br_private.h
index ec8560349b6f..47fd64bf5022 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_private.h
+++ b/net/bridge/br_private.h
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ struct net_bridge {
struct timer_list hello_timer;
struct timer_list tcn_timer;
struct timer_list topology_change_timer;
- struct timer_list gc_timer;
+ struct delayed_work gc_work;
struct kobject *ifobj;
u32 auto_cnt;
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ void br_fdb_find_delete_local(struct net_bridge *br,
const unsigned char *addr, u16 vid);
void br_fdb_changeaddr(struct net_bridge_port *p, const unsigned char *newaddr);
void br_fdb_change_mac_address(struct net_bridge *br, const u8 *newaddr);
-void br_fdb_cleanup(unsigned long arg);
+void br_fdb_cleanup(struct work_struct *work);
void br_fdb_delete_by_port(struct net_bridge *br,
const struct net_bridge_port *p, u16 vid, int do_all);
struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *__br_fdb_get(struct net_bridge *br,