Added changes suggested by Julian Anastasov in version 2.
fib_flush walks the whole fib in a net_namespace and is called for
each net_device being closed or unregistered. This can be very expensive
when dealing with 100k or more routes in the fib and removal of a lot
of interfaces. These four patches deal with this issue by calling fib_flush
just once for each net namespace and introduce a new function arp_ifdown_all
that does a similar optimization for the neighbour table.
The benchmark tests were run on linux-3.18.
Salam Noureddine (4):
net: add event_list to struct net and provide utility functions
net: dev: add batching to net_device notifiers
net: core: introduce neigh_ifdown_all for all down interfaces
net: fib: avoid calling fib_flush for each device when doing batch
close and unregister
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++
include/net/arp.h | 1 +
include/net/neighbour.h | 1 +
include/net/net_namespace.h | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 +
net/core/dev.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
net/core/neighbour.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
net/core/net_namespace.c | 1 +
net/ipv4/arp.c | 4 ++++
net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 16 +++++++++++++--
10 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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1.8.1.4
