bridge: move to workqueue gc

Move the fdb garbage collector to a workqueue which fires at least 10
milliseconds apart and cleans chain by chain allowing for other tasks
to run in the meantime. When having thousands of fdbs the system is much
more responsive. Most importantly remove the need to check if the
matched entry has expired in __br_fdb_get that causes false-sharing and
is completely unnecessary if we cleanup entries, at worst we'll get 10ms
of traffic for that entry before it gets deleted.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
index e4a4176..5cbed5c 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static void fdb_delete(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *f)
 	if (f->added_by_external_learn)
 		fdb_del_external_learn(f);
 
-	hlist_del_rcu(&f->hlist);
+	hlist_del_init_rcu(&f->hlist);
 	fdb_notify(br, f, RTM_DELNEIGH);
 	call_rcu(&f->rcu, fdb_rcu_free);
 }
@@ -290,34 +290,43 @@ out:
 	spin_unlock_bh(&br->hash_lock);
 }
 
-void br_fdb_cleanup(unsigned long _data)
+void br_fdb_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	struct net_bridge *br = (struct net_bridge *)_data;
+	struct net_bridge *br = container_of(work, struct net_bridge,
+					     gc_work.work);
 	unsigned long delay = hold_time(br);
-	unsigned long next_timer = jiffies + br->ageing_time;
+	unsigned long work_delay = delay;
+	unsigned long now = jiffies;
 	int i;
 
-	spin_lock(&br->hash_lock);
 	for (i = 0; i < BR_HASH_SIZE; i++) {
 		struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *f;
 		struct hlist_node *n;
 
+		if (!br->hash[i].first)
+			continue;
+
+		spin_lock_bh(&br->hash_lock);
 		hlist_for_each_entry_safe(f, n, &br->hash[i], hlist) {
 			unsigned long this_timer;
+
 			if (f->is_static)
 				continue;
 			if (f->added_by_external_learn)
 				continue;
 			this_timer = f->updated + delay;
-			if (time_before_eq(this_timer, jiffies))
+			if (time_after(this_timer, now))
+				work_delay = min(work_delay, this_timer - now);
+			else
 				fdb_delete(br, f);
-			else if (time_before(this_timer, next_timer))
-				next_timer = this_timer;
 		}
+		spin_unlock_bh(&br->hash_lock);
+		cond_resched();
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&br->hash_lock);
 
-	mod_timer(&br->gc_timer, round_jiffies_up(next_timer));
+	/* Cleanup minimum 10 milliseconds apart */
+	work_delay = max_t(unsigned long, work_delay, msecs_to_jiffies(10));
+	mod_delayed_work(system_long_wq, &br->gc_work, work_delay);
 }
 
 /* Completely flush all dynamic entries in forwarding database.*/
@@ -382,8 +391,6 @@ struct net_bridge_fdb_entry *__br_fdb_get(struct net_bridge *br,
 				&br->hash[br_mac_hash(addr, vid)], hlist) {
 		if (ether_addr_equal(fdb->addr.addr, addr) &&
 		    fdb->vlan_id == vid) {
-			if (unlikely(has_expired(br, fdb)))
-				break;
 			return fdb;
 		}
 	}