netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: convert DIY reader/writer to mutex and RCU (v2)

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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:35 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: convert DIY reader/writer to mutex and RCU
 (v2)

Le lundi 08 mars 2010 à 14:00 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> The netlink table locking was open coded version of reader/writer
> sleeping lock.  Change to using mutex and RCU which makes
> code clearer, shorter, and simpler.
> 
> Could use sk_list nulls but then would have to have kmem_cache
> for netlink handles and that seems like unnecessary bloat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> ---
> v1 -> v2 do RCU correctly...
>   * use spinlock not mutex (not safe to sleep in normal RCU)
>   * use _rcu variants of add/delete


>  	kfree(nlk->groups);
>  	nlk->groups = NULL;
> @@ -533,6 +477,8 @@ static int netlink_release(struct socket
>  	local_bh_disable();
>  	sock_prot_inuse_add(sock_net(sk), &netlink_proto, -1);
>  	local_bh_enable();
> +
> +	synchronize_rcu();
>  	sock_put(sk);
>  	return 0;

I am a bit scared by synchronize_rcu() proliferation. This can slow down
some workloads (some scripts invoking netlink commands, not using batch
mode)

We could change sk_prot_free() behavior and optionaly call a callback to
free a socket (and the module_put()) after rcu grace period. As the
rcu_head is not inside struct sock, I could not find a generic way to
code this.

For TCP/UDP sockets this was considered not a viable alternative, but
for other sockets its certainly better than synchronize_rcu() ?

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 092b055..3a2d598 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -693,6 +693,8 @@ struct proto {
 	int			(*backlog_rcv) (struct sock *sk, 
 						struct sk_buff *skb);
 
+	void			(*free_socket)(struct sock *sk);
+
 	/* Keeping track of sk's, looking them up, and port selection methods. */
 	void			(*hash)(struct sock *sk);
 	void			(*unhash)(struct sock *sk);
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index c5812bb..3060c9b 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1027,18 +1027,20 @@ out_free:
 
 static void sk_prot_free(struct proto *prot, struct sock *sk)
 {
-	struct kmem_cache *slab;
-	struct module *owner;
+	security_sk_free(sk);
+	if (prot->free_socket)
+		prot->free_socket(sk);
+	else {
+		struct kmem_cache *slab;
 
-	owner = prot->owner;
-	slab = prot->slab;
+		slab = prot->slab;
 
-	security_sk_free(sk);
-	if (slab != NULL)
-		kmem_cache_free(slab, sk);
-	else
-		kfree(sk);
-	module_put(owner);
+		if (slab != NULL)
+			kmem_cache_free(slab, sk);
+		else
+			kfree(sk);
+		module_put(prot->owner);
+	}
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 320d042..fae2344 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct netlink_sock {
 	struct mutex		cb_def_mutex;
 	void			(*netlink_rcv)(struct sk_buff *skb);
 	struct module		*module;
+	struct rcu_head		rcu;
 };
 
 struct listeners_rcu_head {
@@ -394,10 +395,22 @@ static void netlink_remove(struct sock *sk)
 	netlink_table_ungrab();
 }
 
+static void rcu_free_socket(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+{
+	kfree(container_of(rcu, struct netlink_sock, rcu));
+	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+}
+
+static void free_socket(struct sock *sk)
+{
+	call_rcu(&nlk_sk(sk)->rcu, rcu_free_socket);
+}
+
 static struct proto netlink_proto = {
 	.name	  = "NETLINK",
 	.owner	  = THIS_MODULE,
 	.obj_size = sizeof(struct netlink_sock),
+	.free_socket = free_socket,
 };
 
 static int __netlink_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,


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