netdev - Re: [bisected] e341694e3eb5 netlink_lookup() rcu conversion causes latencies

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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2014 23:25:14 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ursula Braun <braunu@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [bisected] e341694e3eb5 netlink_lookup() rcu conversion causes
 latencies

On 10/11/14 at 12:32pm, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 10:36 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > it just came to my attention that commit e341694e3eb5
> > "netlink: Convert netlink_lookup() to use RCU protected hash table"
> > causes network latencies for me on s390.
> > 
> > The testcase is quite simple and 100% reproducible on s390:
> > 
> > Simply login via ssh to a remote system which has the above mentioned
> > patch applied. Any action like pressing return now has significant
> > latencies. Or in other words, working via such a connection becomes
> > a pain ;)
> > 
> > I haven't debugged it, however I assume the problem is that a) the
> > commit introduces a synchronize_net() call und b) s390 kernels
> > usually get compiled with CONFIG_HZ_100 while most other architectures
> > use CONFIG_HZ_1000.
> > If I change the kernel config to CONFIG_HZ_1000 the problem goes away,
> > however I don't consider this a fix...
> > 
> > Another reason why this hasn't been observed on x86 may or may not be
> > that we haven't implemented CONFIG_HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING on s390 (yet).
> > But that's just guessing...
> 
> CC Paul and Sasha

I think the issue here is obvious and a fix is on the way to move
the insertion and removal to a worker to no longer require the
synchronize_rcu().

What bothers me is that the synchronize_rcu() should only occur
on expand/shrink and not for every table update. The default table
size is 64.
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