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Ying Xue
545a148e43 rhashtable: initialize atomic nelems variable
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-08 19:47:13 -08:00
Ying Xue
c0c09bfdc4 rhashtable: avoid unnecessary wakeup for worker queue
Move condition statements of verifying whether hash table size exceeds
its maximum threshold or reaches its minimum threshold from resizing
functions to resizing decision functions, avoiding unnecessary wakeup
for worker queue thread.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-08 19:47:11 -08:00
Ying Xue
bd6d4db552 rhashtable: future table needs to be traversed when remove an object
When remove an object from hash table, we currently only traverse old
bucket table to check whether the object exists. If the object is not
found in it, we will try again. But in the second search loop, we still
search the object from the old table instead of future table. As a
result, the object may be not removed from hash table especially when
resizing is currently in progress and the object is just saved in the
future table.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-08 19:47:11 -08:00
Ying Xue
db30485408 rhashtable: involve rhashtable_lookup_insert routine
Involve a new function called rhashtable_lookup_insert() which makes
lookup and insertion atomic under bucket lock protection, helping us
avoid to introduce an extra lock when we search and insert an object
into hash table.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-08 19:47:11 -08:00
Ying Xue
54c5b7d311 rhashtable: introduce rhashtable_wakeup_worker helper function
Introduce rhashtable_wakeup_worker() helper function to reduce
duplicated code where to wake up worker.

By the way, as long as the both "future_tbl" and "tbl" bucket table
pointers point to the same bucket array, we should try to wake up
the resizing worker thread, otherwise, it indicates the work of
resizing hash table is not finished yet. However, currently we will
wake up the worker thread only when the two pointers point to
different bucket array. Obviously this is wrong. So, the issue is
also fixed as well in the patch.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-08 19:47:10 -08:00
Ying Xue
efb975a67e rhashtable: optimize rhashtable_lookup routine
Define an internal compare function and relevant compare argument,
and then make use of rhashtable_lookup_compare() to lookup key in
hash table, reducing duplicated code between rhashtable_lookup()
and rhashtable_lookup_compare().

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-08 19:47:09 -08:00
Thomas Graf
f89bd6f87a rhashtable: Supports for nulls marker
In order to allow for wider usage of rhashtable, use a special nulls
marker to terminate each chain. The reason for not using the existing
nulls_list is that the prev pointer usage would not be valid as entries
can be linked in two different buckets at the same time.

The 4 nulls base bits can be set through the rhashtable_params structure
like this:

struct rhashtable_params params = {
        [...]
        .nulls_base = (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT),
};

This reduces the hash length from 32 bits to 27 bits.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-03 14:32:57 -05:00
Thomas Graf
97defe1ecf 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>
2015-01-03 14:32:57 -05:00
Thomas Graf
897362e446 nft_hash: Remove rhashtable_remove_pprev()
The removal function of nft_hash currently stores a reference to the
previous element during lookup which is used to optimize removal later
on. This was possible because a lock is held throughout calling
rhashtable_lookup() and rhashtable_remove().

With the introdution of deferred table resizing in parallel to lookups
and insertions, the nftables lock will no longer synchronize all
table mutations and the stored pprev may become invalid.

Removing this optimization makes removal slightly more expensive on
average but allows taking the resize cost out of the insert and
remove path.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-03 14:32:57 -05:00
Thomas Graf
b8e1943e9f rhashtable: Factor out bucket_tail() function
Subsequent patches will require access to the bucket tail. Access
to the tail is relatively cheap as the automatic resizing of the
table should keep the number of entries per bucket to no more
than 0.75 on average.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-03 14:32:57 -05:00
Thomas Graf
88d6ed15ac rhashtable: Convert bucket iterators to take table and index
This patch is in preparation to introduce per bucket spinlocks. It
extends all iterator macros to take the bucket table and bucket
index. It also introduces a new rht_dereference_bucket() to
handle protected accesses to buckets.

It introduces a barrier() to the RCU iterators to the prevent
the compiler from caching the first element.

The lockdep verifier is introduced as stub which always succeeds
and properly implement in the next patch when the locks are
introduced.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-03 14:32:56 -05:00
Thomas Graf
a4b18cda4c rhashtable: Use rht_obj() instead of manual offset calculation
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-03 14:32:56 -05:00
Thomas Graf
8d24c0b431 rhashtable: Do hashing inside of rhashtable_lookup_compare()
Hash the key inside of rhashtable_lookup_compare() like
rhashtable_lookup() does. This allows to simplify the hashing
functions and keep them private.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-03 14:32:56 -05:00
Daniel Borkmann
87545899b5 net: replace remaining users of arch_fast_hash with jhash
This patch effectively reverts commit 500f808726 ("net: ovs: use CRC32
accelerated flow hash if available"), and other remaining arch_fast_hash()
users such as from nfsd via commit 6282cd5655 ("NFSD: Don't hand out
delegations for 30 seconds after recalling them.") where it has been used
as a hash function for bloom filtering.

While we think that these users are actually not much of concern, it has
been requested to remove the arch_fast_hash() library bits that arose
from [1] entirely as per recent discussion [2]. The main argument is that
using it as a hash may introduce bias due to its linearity (see avalanche
criterion) and thus makes it less clear (though we tried to document that)
when this security/performance trade-off is actually acceptable for a
general purpose library function.

Lets therefore avoid any further confusion on this matter and remove it to
prevent any future accidental misuse of it. For the time being, this is
going to make hashing of flow keys a bit more expensive in the ovs case,
but future work could reevaluate a different hashing discipline.

  [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/299369/
  [2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/418756/

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Francesco Fusco <fusco@ntop.org>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-10 15:17:45 -05:00
Thomas Graf
3e7b2ec4fe rhashtable: Check for count mismatch while iterating in selftest
Verify whether both the lock and RCU protected iterators see all
test entries before and after expanding and shrinking has been
performed. Also verify whether the number of entries in the hashtable
remains stable during expansion and shrinking.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-24 16:17:31 -05:00
David S. Miller
076ce44825 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c

sge.c was overlapping two changes, one to use the new
__dev_alloc_page() in net-next, and one to use s->fl_pg_order in net.

ixgbe_phy.c was a set of overlapping whitespace changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-14 01:01:12 -05:00
Thomas Graf
6eba82248e rhashtable: Drop gfp_flags arg in insert/remove functions
Reallocation is only required for shrinking and expanding and both rely
on a mutex for synchronization and callers of rhashtable_init() are in
non atomic context. Therefore, no reason to continue passing allocation
hints through the API.

Instead, use GFP_KERNEL and add __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY to allow
for silent fall back to vzalloc() without the OOM killer jumping in as
pointed out by Eric Dumazet and Eric W. Biederman.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-13 15:18:40 -05:00
Herbert Xu
7b4ce23534 rhashtable: Add parent argument to mutex_is_held
Currently mutex_is_held can only test locks in the that are global
since it takes no arguments.  This prevents rhashtable from being
used in places where locks are lock, e.g., per-namespace locks.

This patch adds a parent field to mutex_is_held and rhashtable_params
so that local locks can be used (and tested).

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-13 15:13:05 -05:00
Herbert Xu
1b2f309d70 rhashtable: Move mutex_is_held under PROVE_LOCKING
The rhashtable function mutex_is_held is only used when PROVE_LOCKING
is enabled.  This patch makes the mutex_is_held field in rhashtable
optional depending on PROVE_LOCKING.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-13 15:13:05 -05:00
Herbert Xu
0c828f2f83 lib: rhashtable - Remove weird non-ASCII characters from comments
My editor spewed garbage that looked like memory corruption on
my screen.  It turns out that a number of occurences of "fi" got
turned into a ligature.

This patch replaces these ligatures with the ASCII letters "fi".

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Cheers,
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-13 14:38:46 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
35a9ad8af0 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Most notable changes in here:

   1) By far the biggest accomplishment, thanks to a large range of
      contributors, is the addition of multi-send for transmit.  This is
      the result of discussions back in Chicago, and the hard work of
      several individuals.

      Now, when the ->ndo_start_xmit() method of a driver sees
      skb->xmit_more as true, it can choose to defer the doorbell
      telling the driver to start processing the new TX queue entires.

      skb->xmit_more means that the generic networking is guaranteed to
      call the driver immediately with another SKB to send.

      There is logic added to the qdisc layer to dequeue multiple
      packets at a time, and the handling mis-predicted offloads in
      software is now done with no locks held.

      Finally, pktgen is extended to have a "burst" parameter that can
      be used to test a multi-send implementation.

      Several drivers have xmit_more support: i40e, igb, ixgbe, mlx4,
      virtio_net

      Adding support is almost trivial, so export more drivers to
      support this optimization soon.

      I want to thank, in no particular or implied order, Jesper
      Dangaard Brouer, Eric Dumazet, Alexander Duyck, Tom Herbert, Jamal
      Hadi Salim, John Fastabend, Florian Westphal, Daniel Borkmann,
      David Tat, Hannes Frederic Sowa, and Rusty Russell.

   2) PTP and timestamping support in bnx2x, from Michal Kalderon.

   3) Allow adjusting the rx_copybreak threshold for a driver via
      ethtool, and add rx_copybreak support to enic driver.  From
      Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

   4) Significant enhancements to the generic PHY layer and the bcm7xxx
      driver in particular (EEE support, auto power down, etc.) from
      Florian Fainelli.

   5) Allow raw buffers to be used for flow dissection, allowing drivers
      to determine the optimal "linear pull" size for devices that DMA
      into pools of pages.  The objective is to get exactly the
      necessary amount of headers into the linear SKB area pre-pulled,
      but no more.  The new interface drivers use is eth_get_headlen().
      From WANG Cong, with driver conversions (several had their own
      by-hand duplicated implementations) by Alexander Duyck and Eric
      Dumazet.

   6) Support checksumming more smoothly and efficiently for
      encapsulations, and add "foo over UDP" facility.  From Tom
      Herbert.

   7) Add Broadcom SF2 switch driver to DSA layer, from Florian
      Fainelli.

   8) eBPF now can load programs via a system call and has an extensive
      testsuite.  Alexei Starovoitov and Daniel Borkmann.

   9) Major overhaul of the packet scheduler to use RCU in several major
      areas such as the classifiers and rate estimators.  From John
      Fastabend.

  10) Add driver for Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch, from Alexander
      Duyck.

  11) Rearrange TCP_SKB_CB() to reduce cache line misses, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  12) Add Datacenter TCP congestion control algorithm support, From
      Florian Westphal.

  13) Reorganize sk_buff so that __copy_skb_header() is significantly
      faster.  From Eric Dumazet"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1558 commits)
  netlabel: directly return netlbl_unlabel_genl_init()
  net: add netdev_txq_bql_{enqueue, complete}_prefetchw() helpers
  net: description of dma_cookie cause make xmldocs warning
  cxgb4: clean up a type issue
  cxgb4: potential shift wrapping bug
  i40e: skb->xmit_more support
  net: fs_enet: Add NAPI TX
  net: fs_enet: Remove non NAPI RX
  r8169:add support for RTL8168EP
  net_sched: copy exts->type in tcf_exts_change()
  wimax: convert printk to pr_foo()
  af_unix: remove 0 assignment on static
  ipv6: Do not warn for informational ICMP messages, regardless of type.
  Update Intel Ethernet Driver maintainers list
  bridge: Save frag_max_size between PRE_ROUTING and POST_ROUTING
  tipc: fix bug in multicast congestion handling
  net: better IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE support
  net/mlx4_en: remove NETDEV_TX_BUSY
  3c59x: fix bad split of cpu_to_le32(pci_map_single())
  net: bcmgenet: fix Tx ring priority programming
  ...
2014-10-08 21:40:54 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
28596c9722 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull "trivial tree" updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual pile from trivial tree everyone is so eagerly waiting for"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Remove MN10300_PROC_MN2WS0038
  mei: fix comments
  treewide: Fix typos in Kconfig
  kprobes: update jprobe_example.c for do_fork() change
  Documentation: change "&" to "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt
  Documentation: remove obsolete pcmcia-cs from Changes
  Documentation: update links in Changes
  Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml
  score: Remove GENERIC_HAS_IOMAP
  gpio: fix 'CONFIG_GPIO_IRQCHIP' comments
  tty: doc: Fix grammar in serial/tty
  dma-debug: modify check_for_stack output
  treewide: fix errors in printk
  genirq: fix reference in devm_request_threaded_irq comment
  treewide: fix synchronize_rcu() in comments
  checkstack.pl: port to AArch64
  doc: queue-sysfs: minor fixes
  init/do_mounts: better syntax description
  MIPS: fix comment spelling
  powerpc/simpleboot: fix comment
  ...
2014-10-07 21:16:26 -04:00
David S. Miller
739e4a758e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/r8152.c
	net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c

Both r8152 and nfnetlink conflicts were simple overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-02 11:25:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
e7af85db54 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf
Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
nf pull request for net

This series contains netfilter fixes for net, they are:

1) Fix lockdep splat in nft_hash when releasing sets from the
   rcu_callback context. We don't the mutex there anymore.

2) Remove unnecessary spinlock_bh in the destroy path of the nf_tables
   rbtree set type from rcu_callback context.

3) Fix another lockdep splat in rhashtable. None of the callers hold
   a mutex when calling rhashtable_destroy.

4) Fix duplicated error reporting from nfnetlink when aborting and
   replaying a batch.

5) Fix a Kconfig issue reported by kbuild robot.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-26 16:21:29 -04:00
David S. Miller
1f6d80358d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
	arch/mips/net/bpf_jit.c
	drivers/net/can/flexcan.c

Both the flexcan and MIPS bpf_jit conflicts were cases of simple
overlapping changes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-23 12:09:27 -04:00
Fabian Frederick
b3f2512ecd lib: rhashtable: remove second linux/log2.h inclusion
linux/log2.h was included twice.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-19 17:08:52 -04:00
Ying Xue
940001762a lib/rhashtable: allow user to set the minimum shifts of shrinking
Although rhashtable library allows user to specify a quiet big size
for user's created hash table, the table may be shrunk to a
very small size - HASH_MIN_SIZE(4) after object is removed from
the table at the first time. Subsequently, even if the total amount
of objects saved in the table is quite lower than user's initial
setting in a long time, the hash table size is still dynamically
adjusted by rhashtable_shrink() or rhashtable_expand() each time
object is inserted or removed from the table. However, as
synchronize_rcu() has to be called when table is shrunk or
expanded by the two functions, we should permit user to set the
minimum table size through configuring the minimum number of shifts
according to user specific requirement, avoiding these expensive
actions of shrinking or expanding because of calling synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-09-03 20:56:32 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
ae82ddcf8e rhashtable: fix lockdep splat in rhashtable_destroy()
No need for rht_dereference() from rhashtable_destroy() since the
existing callers don't hold the mutex when invoking this function
from:

1) Netlink, this is called in case of memory allocation errors in the
   initialization path, no nl_sk_hash_lock is held.
2) Netfilter, this is called from the rcu callback, no nfnl_lock is
   held either.

I think it's reasonable to assume that the caller has to make sure
that no hash resizing may happen before releasing the bucket array.
Therefore, the caller should be responsible for releasing this in a
safe way, document this to make people aware of it.

This resolves a rcu lockdep splat in nft_hash:

===============================
[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
3.16.0+ #178 Not tainted
-------------------------------
lib/rhashtable.c:596 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by ksoftirqd/2/18:
 #0:  (rcu_callback){......}, at: [<ffffffff810918fd>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x27e/0x4c7

stack backtrace:
CPU: 2 PID: 18 Comm: ksoftirqd/2 Not tainted 3.16.0+ #178
Hardware name: LENOVO 23259H1/23259H1, BIOS G2ET32WW (1.12 ) 05/30/2012
 0000000000000001 ffff88011706bb68 ffffffff8143debc 0000000000000000
 ffff880117062610 ffff88011706bb98 ffffffff81077515 ffff8800ca041a50
 0000000000000004 ffff8800ca386480 ffff8800ca041a00 ffff88011706bbb8
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8143debc>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x68
 [<ffffffff81077515>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfa/0x103
 [<ffffffff81228b1b>] rhashtable_destroy+0x46/0x52
 [<ffffffffa06f21a7>] nft_hash_destroy+0x73/0x82 [nft_hash]

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
2014-09-03 10:57:12 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
45d5acd3cd lib: rhashtable: Spelling s/compuate/compute/
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-08-26 09:35:56 +02:00
Thomas Graf
c91eee56dc rhashtable: unexport and make rht_obj() static
No need to export rht_obj(), all inner to outer object translations
occur internally. It was intended to be used with rht_for_each() which
now primarily serves as the iterator for rhashtable_remove_pprev() to
effectively flush and free the full table.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-14 15:13:39 -07:00
Thomas Graf
5300fdcb7b rhashtable: RCU annotations for next pointers
Properly annotate next pointers as access is RCU protected in
the lookup path.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-14 15:13:39 -07:00
Thomas Graf
7e1e77636e lib: Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table
Generic implementation of a resizable, scalable, concurrent hash table
based on [0]. The implementation supports both, fixed size keys specified
via an offset and length, or arbitrary keys via own hash and compare
functions.

Lookups are lockless and protected as RCU read side critical sections.
Automatic growing/shrinking based on user configurable watermarks is
available while allowing concurrent lookups to take place.

Objects to be hashed must include a struct rhash_head. The reason for not
using the existing struct hlist_head is that the expansion and shrinking
will have two buckets point to a single entry which would lead in obscure
reverse chaining behaviour.

Code includes a boot selftest if CONFIG_TEST_RHASHTABLE is defined.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc11/tech/final_files/Triplett.pdf

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-02 19:49:38 -07:00