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Commit a4298e45 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: add SOCK_RCU_FREE socket flag



We want a generic way to insert an RCU grace period before socket
freeing for cases where RCU_SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is adding too
much overhead.

SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU strict rules force us to take a reference
on the socket sk_refcnt, and it is a performance problem for UDP
encapsulation, or TCP synflood behavior, as many CPUs might
attempt the atomic operations on a shared sk_refcnt

UDP sockets and TCP listeners can set SOCK_RCU_FREE so that their
lookup can use traditional RCU rules, without refcount changes.
They can set the flag only once hashed and visible by other cpus.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Tested-by: default avatarTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 43e2dfb2
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