Merge branch 'vxlan-convert-fdb-table-to-rhashtable'

Ido Schimmel says:

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vxlan: Convert FDB table to rhashtable

The VXLAN driver currently stores FDB entries in a hash table with a
fixed number of buckets (256), resulting in reduced performance as the
number of entries grows. This patchset solves the issue by converting
the driver to use rhashtable which maintains a more or less constant
performance regardless of the number of entries.

Measured transmitted packets per second using a single pktgen thread
with varying number of entries when the transmitted packet always hits
the default entry (worst case):

Number of entries | Improvement
------------------|------------
1k                | +1.12%
4k                | +9.22%
16k               | +55%
64k               | +585%
256k              | +2460%

The first patches are preparations for the conversion in the last patch.
Specifically, the series is structured as follows:

Patch #1 adds RCU read-side critical sections in the Tx path when
accessing FDB entries. Targeting at net-next as I am not aware of any
issues due to this omission despite the code being structured that way
for a long time. Without it, traces will be generated when converting
FDB lookup to rhashtable_lookup().

Patch #2-#5 simplify the creation of the default FDB entry (all-zeroes).
Current code assumes that insertion into the hash table cannot fail,
which will no longer be true with rhashtable.

Patches #6-#10 add FDB entries to a linked list for entry traversal
instead of traversing over them using the fixed size hash table which is
removed in the last patch.

Patches #11-#12 add wrappers for FDB lookup that make it clear when each
should be used along with lockdep annotations. Needed as a preparation
for rhashtable_lookup() that must be called from an RCU read-side
critical section.

Patch #13 treats dst cache initialization errors as non-fatal. See more
info in the commit message. The current code happens to work because
insertion into the fixed size hash table is slow enough for the per-CPU
allocator to be able to create new chunks of per-CPU memory.

Patch #14 adds an FDB key structure that includes the MAC address and
source VNI. To be used as rhashtable key.

Patch #15 does the conversion to rhashtable.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415121143.345227-1-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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