rhashtable: Free bucket tables asynchronously after rehash

There is in fact no need to wait for an RCU grace period in the
rehash function, since all insertions are guaranteed to go into
the new table through spin locks.

This patch uses call_rcu to free the old/rehashed table at our
leisure.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Herbert Xu
2015-03-14 13:57:23 +11:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 5269b53da4
commit 9d901bc051
2 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct rhash_head {
* @locks_mask: Mask to apply before accessing locks[]
* @locks: Array of spinlocks protecting individual buckets
* @walkers: List of active walkers
* @rcu: RCU structure for freeing the table
* @buckets: size * hash buckets
*/
struct bucket_table {
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ struct bucket_table {
unsigned int locks_mask;
spinlock_t *locks;
struct list_head walkers;
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct rhash_head __rcu *buckets[] ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
};