From: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:44:15 +0100 (CET)
> Commit 2ac3ac8f86f2 ("ipv6: prevent fib6_run_gc() contention") reduced
> the risk of contention on FIB6 garbage collector lock on systems with
> many CPUs. However, one of our customers can still observe heavy
> contention on fib6_gc_lock which can even trigger the soft lockup
> detector.
>
> This is caused by garbage collector running in forced mode from a timer.
> While there is one timer per network namespace, the instances of
> fib6_run_gc() running from them are protected by one global spinlock so
> that only one garbage collector can run at any moment and other
> namespaces have to wait. As most relevant data structures are separated
> per netns, there is little reason for garbage collectors blocking each
> other.
>
> Similar problem exists for walkers: changes in one tree do not need to
> adjust (and block) walkers traversing FIB trees in other namespaces.
>
> This series separates both the walkers infrastructure and garbage
> collector so that they work independently in network namespaces.
>
> v2: get rid of ifdef in ipv6_route_seq_setup_walk(), pass net from
> callers instead
Series applied, thanks.
