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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2019-03-21 06:42:40 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-03-22 00:01:10 +0300
commit4feb7c7a4fbb8f63371be31cda79433c7cf3da86 (patch)
tree634aa8dd79c50984306f29738f2a19287a97013d /include/linux/rhashtable.h
parent83b038db255d83a32c15fd003f9a921204b9215a (diff)
downloadlinux-4feb7c7a4fbb8f63371be31cda79433c7cf3da86.tar.xz
rhashtable: don't hold lock on first table throughout insertion.
rhashtable_try_insert() currently holds a lock on the bucket in the first table, while also locking buckets in subsequent tables. This is unnecessary and looks like a hold-over from some earlier version of the implementation. As insert and remove always lock a bucket in each table in turn, and as insert only inserts in the final table, there cannot be any races that are not covered by simply locking a bucket in each table in turn. When an insert call reaches that last table it can be sure that there is no matchinf entry in any other table as it has searched them all, and insertion never happens anywhere but in the last table. The fact that code tests for the existence of future_tbl while holding a lock on the relevant bucket ensures that two threads inserting the same key will make compatible decisions about which is the "last" table. This simplifies the code and allows the ->rehash field to be discarded. We still need a way to ensure that a dead bucket_table is never re-linked by rhashtable_walk_stop(). This can be achieved by calling call_rcu() inside the locked region, and checking with rcu_head_after_call_rcu() in rhashtable_walk_stop() to see if the bucket table is empty and dead. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rhashtable.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rhashtable.h13
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rhashtable.h b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
index ae9c0f71f311..3864193d5e2e 100644
--- a/include/linux/rhashtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
struct bucket_table {
unsigned int size;
unsigned int nest;
- unsigned int rehash;
u32 hash_rnd;
unsigned int locks_mask;
spinlock_t *locks;
@@ -776,12 +775,6 @@ static inline int rhltable_insert(
* @obj: pointer to hash head inside object
* @params: hash table parameters
*
- * Locks down the bucket chain in both the old and new table if a resize
- * is in progress to ensure that writers can't remove from the old table
- * and can't insert to the new table during the atomic operation of search
- * and insertion. Searches for duplicates in both the old and new table if
- * a resize is in progress.
- *
* This lookup function may only be used for fixed key hash table (key_len
* parameter set). It will BUG() if used inappropriately.
*
@@ -837,12 +830,6 @@ static inline void *rhashtable_lookup_get_insert_fast(
* @obj: pointer to hash head inside object
* @params: hash table parameters
*
- * Locks down the bucket chain in both the old and new table if a resize
- * is in progress to ensure that writers can't remove from the old table
- * and can't insert to the new table during the atomic operation of search
- * and insertion. Searches for duplicates in both the old and new table if
- * a resize is in progress.
- *
* Lookups may occur in parallel with hashtable mutations and resizing.
*
* Will trigger an automatic deferred table resizing if residency in the