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author | melifaro <melifaro@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-06 06:53:58 +0000 |
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committer | melifaro <melifaro@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-04-06 06:53:58 +0000 |
commit | 8b1d10268c8ffd28f6c4b0da1e3906b139fc94cf (patch) | |
tree | ead0d5369047c56ec667d8a937da41d4682a0ed6 /contrib/gperf | |
parent | b6974119420223f65336e5d64d2782bff6a82731 (diff) | |
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- Improve BPF locking model.
Interface locks and descriptor locks are converted from mutex(9) to rwlock(9).
This greately improves performance: in most common case we need to acquire 1
reader lock instead of 2 mutexes.
- Remove filter(descriptor) (reader) lock in bpf_mtap[2]
This was suggested by glebius@. We protect filter by requesting interface
writer lock on filter change.
- Cover struct bpf_if under BPF_INTERNAL define. This permits including bpf.h
without including rwlock stuff. However, this is is temporary solution,
struct bpf_if should be made opaque for any external caller.
Found by: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@yandex-team.ru>
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Reviewed by: glebius (previous version)
Reviewed by: silence on -net@
Approved by: (mentor)
MFC after: 3 weeks
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