[PATCH 2/2] xfrm: state lookup can be lockless
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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Date: 2016-09-23 07:14:52
Subsystem:
networking [general], networking [ipsec], the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Steffen Klassert, Herbert Xu, Linus Torvalds
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> This is called from the packet input path, we get lock contention if many cpus handle ipsec in parallel. After recent rcu conversion it is safe to call __xfrm_state_lookup without the spinlock. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> --- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index ba8bf51..a38fdea 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c@@ -1431,9 +1431,9 @@ xfrm_state_lookup(struct net *net, u32 mark, const xfrm_address_t *daddr, __be32 { struct xfrm_state *x; - spin_lock_bh(&net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); x = __xfrm_state_lookup(net, mark, daddr, spi, proto, family); - spin_unlock_bh(&net->xfrm.xfrm_state_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return x; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm_state_lookup);
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