From 2ac3ac8f86f2fe065d746d9a9abaca867adec577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Kubeček Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 10:04:14 +0200 Subject: ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention On a high-traffic router with many processors and many IPv6 dst entries, soft lockup in fib6_run_gc() can occur when number of entries reaches gc_thresh. This happens because fib6_run_gc() uses fib6_gc_lock to allow only one thread to run the garbage collector but ip6_dst_gc() doesn't update net->ipv6.ip6_rt_last_gc until fib6_run_gc() returns. On a system with many entries, this can take some time so that in the meantime, other threads pass the tests in ip6_dst_gc() (ip6_rt_last_gc is still not updated) and wait for the lock. They then have to run the garbage collector one after another which blocks them for quite long. Resolve this by replacing special value ~0UL of expire parameter to fib6_run_gc() by explicit "force" parameter to choose between spin_lock_bh() and spin_trylock_bh() and call fib6_run_gc() with force=false if gc_thresh is reached but not max_size. Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6/ndisc.c') diff --git a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c index 24c03396e008..79aa9652ed86 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ndisc.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ndisc.c @@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ static int ndisc_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, switch (event) { case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR: neigh_changeaddr(&nd_tbl, dev); - fib6_run_gc(~0UL, net); + fib6_run_gc(0, net, false); idev = in6_dev_get(dev); if (!idev) break; @@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ static int ndisc_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, break; case NETDEV_DOWN: neigh_ifdown(&nd_tbl, dev); - fib6_run_gc(~0UL, net); + fib6_run_gc(0, net, false); break; case NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS: ndisc_send_unsol_na(dev); -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151