netdev - [PATCH 1/3] rcu: Introduce hlist

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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:14:18 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
CC:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	benny+usenet@...rsen.dk,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Christian Bell <christian@...i.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] rcu: Introduce hlist_nulls variant of hlist

hlist uses NULL value to finish a chain.

hlist_nulls variant use the low order bit set to 1 to signal an end-of-list marker.

This allows to store many different end markers, so that some RCU lockless
algos (used in TCP/UDP stack for example) can save some memory barriers in
fast paths.

Two new files are added :

include/linux/list_nulls.h
  - mimics hlist part of include/linux/list.h, derived to hlist_nulls variant

include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
  - mimics hlist part of include/linux/rculist.h, derived to hlist_nulls variant

   Only four helpers are declared for the moment :

     hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu(), hlist_nulls_del_rcu(),
     hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu() and hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu()

prefetches() were removed, since an end of list is not anymore NULL value.
prefetches() could trigger useless (and possibly dangerous) memory transactions.

Example of use (extracted from __udp4_lib_lookup())

	struct sock *sk, *result;
        struct hlist_nulls_node *node;
        unsigned short hnum = ntohs(dport);
        unsigned int hash = udp_hashfn(net, hnum);
        struct udp_hslot *hslot = &udptable->hash[hash];
        int score, badness;

        rcu_read_lock();
begin:
        result = NULL;
        badness = -1;
        sk_nulls_for_each_rcu(sk, node, &hslot->head) {
                score = compute_score(sk, net, saddr, hnum, sport,
                                      daddr, dport, dif);
                if (score > badness) {
                        result = sk;
                        badness = score;
                }
        }
        /*
         * if the nulls value we got at the end of this lookup is
         * not the expected one, we must restart lookup.
         * We probably met an item that was moved to another chain.
         */
        if (get_nulls_value(node) != hash)
                goto begin;

        if (result) {
                if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&result->sk_refcnt)))
                        result = NULL;
                else if (unlikely(compute_score(result, net, saddr, hnum, sport,
                                  daddr, dport, dif) < badness)) {
                        sock_put(result);
                        goto begin;
                }
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
        return result;

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
---
 include/linux/list_nulls.h    |   94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/rculist_nulls.h |  110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 204 insertions(+)

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