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    [IPV4] route cache: Introduce rt_genid for smooth cache invalidation · 29e75252
    Eric Dumazet authored
    Current ip route cache implementation is not suited to large caches.
    
    We can consume a lot of CPU when cache must be invalidated, since we
    currently need to evict all cache entries, and this eviction is
    sometimes asynchronous. min_delay & max_delay can somewhat control this
    asynchronism behavior, but whole thing is a kludge, regularly triggering
    infamous soft lockup messages. When entries are still in use, this also
    consumes a lot of ram, filling dst_garbage.list.
    
    A better scheme is to use a generation identifier on each entry,
    so that cache invalidation can be performed by changing the table
    identifier, without having to scan all entries.
    No more delayed flushing, no more stalling when secret_interval expires.
    
    Invalidated entries will then be freed at GC time (controled by
    ip_rt_gc_timeout or stress), or when an invalidated entry is found
    in a chain when an insert is done.
    Thus we keep a normal equilibrium.
    
    This patch :
    - renames rt_hash_rnd to rt_genid (and makes it an atomic_t)
    - Adds a new rt_genid field to 'struct rtable' (filling a hole on 64bit)
    - Checks entry->rt_genid at appropriate places :
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