netdev - Re: [PATCH] udp: Introduce special NULL pointers for hlist termination

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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:01:26 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, shemminger@...tta.com,
	benny+usenet@...rsen.dk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, Christian Bell <christian@...i.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udp: Introduce special NULL pointers for hlist
 termination

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:40 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> [PATCH] udp: Introduce special NULL pointers for hlist termination
> 
> In order to safely detect changes in chains, we would like to have different
> 'NULL' pointers. Each chain in hash table is terminated by an unique 'NULL'
> value, so that the lockless readers can detect their lookups evaded from
> their starting chain.
> 
> We introduce a new type of hlist implementation, named hlist_nulls, were
> we use the least significant bit of the 'ptr' to tell if its a "NULL" value
> or a pointer to an object. We expect to use this new hlist variant for TCP
> as well.
> 
> For UDP/UDP-Lite hash table, we use 128 different "NULL" values,
> (UDP_HTABLE_SIZE=128)
> 
> Using hlist_nulls saves memory barriers (a read barrier to fetch 'next'
> pointers *before* checking key values) we added in commit 
> 96631ed16c514cf8b28fab991a076985ce378c26
> (udp: introduce sk_for_each_rcu_safenext())
> 
> This also saves a write memory barrier in udp_lib_get_port(), between
> sk->sk_hash update and sk->next update)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/list_nulls.h    |   97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/rculist.h       |   17 -----
>  include/linux/rculist_nulls.h |   55 ++++++++++++++++++
>  include/net/sock.h            |   50 ++++++++++++----
>  include/net/udp.h             |    2
>  net/ipv4/udp.c                |   40 ++++++-------
>  net/ipv6/udp.c                |   22 ++++---
>  7 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

If we're going to do this, It'd be good to have the list_nulls stuff in
their own patch, as clearly they are not UDP specific.

Also, I think it would be very good to have some extensive comments in
the list_nulls files describing their use in clear and concise language,
because the above changelog doesn't even begin to explain things for
those not following this thread.



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