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authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>2017-02-04 20:05:07 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-02-07 06:53:13 +0300
commitf7cdee8a79a1cb03fa9ca71b825e72f880b344e1 (patch)
treebda0a6e29e0d7748d2f7e59a8da9c5194f486b36 /net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
parent1f90c7f3470580e24da25f6a6c1fb480ed9371ac (diff)
downloadlinux-f7cdee8a79a1cb03fa9ca71b825e72f880b344e1.tar.xz
bridge: move to workqueue gc
Move the fdb garbage collector to a workqueue which fires at least 10 milliseconds apart and cleans chain by chain allowing for other tasks to run in the meantime. When having thousands of fdbs the system is much more responsive. Most importantly remove the need to check if the matched entry has expired in __br_fdb_get that causes false-sharing and is completely unnecessary if we cleanup entries, at worst we'll get 10ms of traffic for that entry before it gets deleted. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
index 7ddb38e0a06e..c98b3e5c140a 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
@@ -153,8 +153,6 @@ void br_stp_timer_init(struct net_bridge *br)
setup_timer(&br->topology_change_timer,
br_topology_change_timer_expired,
(unsigned long) br);
-
- setup_timer(&br->gc_timer, br_fdb_cleanup, (unsigned long) br);
}
void br_stp_port_timer_init(struct net_bridge_port *p)