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    inetpeer: remove unused list · 4b9d9be8
    Eric Dumazet authored
    
    
    Andi Kleen and Tim Chen reported huge contention on inetpeer
    unused_peers.lock, on memcached workload on a 40 core machine, with
    disabled route cache.
    
    It appears we constantly flip peers refcnt between 0 and 1 values, and
    we must insert/remove peers from unused_peers.list, holding a contended
    spinlock.
    
    Remove this list completely and perform a garbage collection on-the-fly,
    at lookup time, using the expired nodes we met during the tree
    traversal.
    
    This removes a lot of code, makes locking more standard, and obsoletes
    two sysctls (inet_peer_gc_mintime and inet_peer_gc_maxtime). This also
    removes two pointers in inet_peer structure.
    
    There is still a false sharing effect because refcnt is in first cache
    line of object [were the links and keys used by lookups are located], we
    might move it at the end of inet_peer structure to let this first cache
    line mostly read by cpus.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    CC: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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