tree 8b580340bdc0d1f25f4a76dfc39c48760f3f307a
parent 8d549c4f5d92d80fc6f888fd314e10972ae0ec37
author Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com> 1383817670 +0800
committer Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> 1386308706 +0100

xfrm: Namespacify xfrm state/policy locks

By semantics, xfrm layer is fully name space aware,
so will the locks, e.g. xfrm_state/pocliy_lock.
Ensure exclusive access into state/policy link list
for different name space with one global lock is not
right in terms of semantics aspect at first place,
as they are indeed mutually independent with each
other, but also more seriously causes scalability
problem.

One practical scenario is on a Open Network Stack,
more than hundreds of lxc tenants acts as routers
within one host, a global xfrm_state/policy_lock
becomes the bottleneck. But onces those locks are
decoupled in a per-namespace fashion, locks contend
is just with in specific name space scope, without
causing additional SPD/SAD access delay for other
name space.

Also this patch improve scalability while as without
changing original xfrm behavior.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>