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Date:	Thu,  2 Jul 2015 06:07:33 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/6] net_sched: act: use a separate packet counters for gact_determ()

Second step for gact RCU operation :

We want to get rid of the spinlock protecting gact operations.
Stats (packets/bytes) will soon be per cpu.

gact_determ() would not work without a central packet counter,
so lets add it for this mode.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
---
 include/net/tc_act/tc_gact.h | 7 ++++---
 net/sched/act_gact.c         | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/tc_act/tc_gact.h b/include/net/tc_act/tc_gact.h
index 9fc9b578908a..592a6bc02b0b 100644
--- a/include/net/tc_act/tc_gact.h
+++ b/include/net/tc_act/tc_gact.h
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 struct tcf_gact {
 	struct tcf_common	common;
 #ifdef CONFIG_GACT_PROB
-        u16			tcfg_ptype;
-        u16			tcfg_pval;
-        int			tcfg_paction;
+	u16			tcfg_ptype;
+	u16			tcfg_pval;
+	int			tcfg_paction;
+	atomic_t		packets;
 #endif
 };
 #define to_gact(a) \
diff --git a/net/sched/act_gact.c b/net/sched/act_gact.c
index 42284aad77dd..e968290e8378 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_gact.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_gact.c
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ static int gact_net_rand(struct tcf_gact *gact)
 
 static int gact_determ(struct tcf_gact *gact)
 {
-	if (gact->tcf_bstats.packets % gact->tcfg_pval)
+	u32 pack = atomic_inc_return(&gact->packets);
+
+	if (pack % gact->tcfg_pval)
 		return gact->tcf_action;
 	return gact->tcfg_paction;
 }
-- 
2.4.3.573.g4eafbef

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