tree f0b215577427ab12ab4ae7b3f45cd6ad3fe16499
parent e8b2dfe9b4501ed0047459b2756ba26e5a940a69
author Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> 1226893075 -0800
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1226893075 -0800

rcu: Introduce hlist_nulls variant of hlist

hlist uses NULL value to finish a chain.

hlist_nulls variant use the low order bit set to 1 to signal an end-of-list marker.

This allows to store many different end markers, so that some RCU lockless
algos (used in TCP/UDP stack for example) can save some memory barriers in
fast paths.

Two new files are added :

include/linux/list_nulls.h
  - mimics hlist part of include/linux/list.h, derived to hlist_nulls variant

include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
  - mimics hlist part of include/linux/rculist.h, derived to hlist_nulls variant

   Only four helpers are declared for the moment :

     hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu(), hlist_nulls_del_rcu(),
     hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu() and hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu()

prefetches() were removed, since an end of list is not anymore NULL value.
prefetches() could trigger useless (and possibly dangerous) memory transactions.

Example of use (extracted from __udp4_lib_lookup())

	struct sock *sk, *result;
        struct hlist_nulls_node *node;
        unsigned short hnum = ntohs(dport);
        unsigned int hash = udp_hashfn(net, hnum);
        struct udp_hslot *hslot = &udptable->hash[hash];
        int score, badness;

        rcu_read_lock();
begin:
        result = NULL;
        badness = -1;
        sk_nulls_for_each_rcu(sk, node, &hslot->head) {
                score = compute_score(sk, net, saddr, hnum, sport,
                                      daddr, dport, dif);
                if (score > badness) {
                        result = sk;
                        badness = score;
                }
        }
        /*
         * if the nulls value we got at the end of this lookup is
         * not the expected one, we must restart lookup.
         * We probably met an item that was moved to another chain.
         */
        if (get_nulls_value(node) != hash)
                goto begin;

        if (result) {
                if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&result->sk_refcnt)))
                        result = NULL;
                else if (unlikely(compute_score(result, net, saddr, hnum, sport,
                                  daddr, dport, dif) < badness)) {
                        sock_put(result);
                        goto begin;
                }
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
        return result;

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>