tree bf7f41be7e701f6e282ed92e8063e69d339554f8
parent 82efee1499a27c06f5afb11b07db384fdb3f7004
author Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> 1285817638 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1285906566 -0700

ipv4: rcu conversion in ip_route_output_slow

ip_route_output_slow() is enclosed in an rcu_read_lock() protected
section, so that no references are taken/released on device, thanks to
__ip_dev_find() & dev_get_by_index_rcu()

Tested with ip route cache disabled, and a stress test :

Before patch:

elapsed time :

real	1m38.347s
user	0m11.909s
sys	23m51.501s

Profile:

13788.00 22.7% ip_route_output_slow [kernel]
 7875.00 13.0% dst_destroy          [kernel]
 3925.00  6.5% fib_semantic_match   [kernel]
 3144.00  5.2% fib_rules_lookup     [kernel]
 3061.00  5.0% dst_alloc            [kernel]
 2276.00  3.7% rt_set_nexthop       [kernel]
 1762.00  2.9% fib_table_lookup     [kernel]
 1538.00  2.5% _raw_read_lock       [kernel]
 1358.00  2.2% ip_output            [kernel]

After patch:

real	1m28.808s
user	0m13.245s
sys	20m37.293s

10950.00 17.2% ip_route_output_slow [kernel]
10726.00 16.9% dst_destroy          [kernel]
 5170.00  8.1% fib_semantic_match   [kernel]
 3937.00  6.2% dst_alloc            [kernel]
 3635.00  5.7% rt_set_nexthop       [kernel]
 2900.00  4.6% fib_rules_lookup     [kernel]
 2240.00  3.5% fib_table_lookup     [kernel]
 1427.00  2.2% _raw_read_lock       [kernel]
 1157.00  1.8% kmem_cache_alloc     [kernel]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>