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author | Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> | 2015-01-02 23:00:20 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-01-03 14:32:57 -0500 |
commit | 97defe1ecf868b8127f8e62395499d6a06e4c4b1 (patch) | |
tree | d3ed6d3db4943e01b1ae58e73580537ba1642d9e /include/linux/vt.h | |
parent | 113948d841e8d78039e5dbbb5248f5b73e99eafa (diff) |
rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred expansion/shrinking
Introduces an array of spinlocks to protect bucket mutations. The number
of spinlocks per CPU is configurable and selected based on the hash of
the bucket. This allows for parallel insertions and removals of entries
which do not share a lock.
The patch also defers expansion and shrinking to a worker queue which
allows insertion and removal from atomic context. Insertions and
deletions may occur in parallel to it and are only held up briefly
while the particular bucket is linked or unzipped.
Mutations of the bucket table pointer is protected by a new mutex, read
access is RCU protected.
In the event of an expansion or shrinking, the new bucket table allocated
is exposed as a so called future table as soon as the resize process
starts. Lookups, deletions, and insertions will briefly use both tables.
The future table becomes the main table after an RCU grace period and
initial linking of the old to the new table was performed. Optimization
of the chains to make use of the new number of buckets follows only the
new table is in use.
The side effect of this is that during that RCU grace period, a bucket
traversal using any rht_for_each() variant on the main table will not see
any insertions performed during the RCU grace period which would at that
point land in the future table. The lookup will see them as it searches
both tables if needed.
Having multiple insertions and removals occur in parallel requires nelems
to become an atomic counter.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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