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David S. Miller 7a153655d7 Merge branch 'Refactor-classifier-API-to-work-with-Qdisc-blocks-without-rtnl-lock'
Vlad Buslov says:

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Refactor classifier API to work with Qdisc/blocks without rtnl lock

Currently, all netlink protocol handlers for updating rules, actions and
qdiscs are protected with single global rtnl lock which removes any
possibility for parallelism. This patch set is a third step to remove
rtnl lock dependency from TC rules update path.

Recently, new rtnl registration flag RTNL_FLAG_DOIT_UNLOCKED was added.
Handlers registered with this flag are called without RTNL taken. End
goal is to have rule update handlers(RTM_NEWTFILTER, RTM_DELTFILTER,
etc.) to be registered with UNLOCKED flag to allow parallel execution.
However, there is no intention to completely remove or split rtnl lock
itself. This patch set addresses specific problems in implementation of
classifiers API that prevent its control path from being executed
concurrently. Additional changes are required to refactor classifiers
API and individual classifiers for parallel execution. This patch set
lays groundwork to eventually register rule update handlers as
rtnl-unlocked by modifying code in cls API that works with Qdiscs and
blocks. Following patch set does the same for chains and classifiers.

The goal of this change is to refactor tcf_block_find() and its
dependencies to allow concurrent execution:
- Extend Qdisc API with rcu to lookup and take reference to Qdisc
  without relying on rtnl lock.
- Extend tcf_block with atomic reference counting and rcu.
- Always take reference to tcf_block while working with it.
- Implement tcf_block_release() to release resources obtained by
  tcf_block_find()
- Create infrastructure to allow registering Qdiscs with class ops that
  do not require the caller to hold rtnl lock.

All three netlink rule update handlers use tcf_block_find() to lookup
Qdisc and block, and this patch set introduces additional means of
synchronization to substitute rtnl lock in cls API.

Some functions in cls and sch APIs have historic names that no longer
clearly describe their intent. In order not make this code even more
confusing when introducing their concurrency-friendly versions, rename
these functions to describe actual implementation.

Changes from V2 to V3:
- Patch 1:
  - Explicitly include refcount.h in rtnetlink.h.
- Patch 3:
  - Move rcu_head field to the end of struct Qdisc.
  - Rearrange local variable declarations in qdisc_lookup_rcu().
- Patch 5:
  - Remove tcf_qdisc_put() and inline its content to callers.

Changes from V1 to V2:
- Rebase on latest net-next.
- Patch 8 - remove.
- Patch 9 - fold into patch 11.
- Patch 11:
  - Rename tcf_block_{get|put}() to tcf_block_refcnt_{get|put}().
- Patch 13 - remove.
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Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-09-25 20:17:36 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.