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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: 'Eric Dumazet' <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"tgraf@suug.ch" <tgraf@suug.ch>,
	"pablo@netfilter.org" <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	"johunt@akamai.com" <johunt@akamai.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rhashtable: use cond_resched()
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:46:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226154643.GA18965@acer.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CAEEE09@AcuExch.aculab.com>

On 26.02, David Laight wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet 
> Sent: 26 February 2015 15:21
> > If a hash table has 128 slots and 16384 elems, expand to 256 slots
> > takes more than one second. For larger sets, a soft lockup is detected.
> 
> What on earth is it doing?
> Presumably something to do with the rcu actions needed to allow
> lockless lookup during resize.
> 
> There has to be a better solution?
> Perhaps even two sets of chain pointers down the hash lists.
> Then the old hash table can be kept completely valid while the
> whole 'unzip' action is done.

One of the main points of rhashtable is that you don't need those.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-25 22:09 [PATCH net 2/2] rhashtable: remove indirection for grow/shrink decision functions Alexei Starovoitov
2015-02-26  7:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-02-26  8:54   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-02-26 14:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-26 14:54     ` Patrick McHardy
2015-02-26 15:20     ` [PATCH net] rhashtable: use cond_resched() Eric Dumazet
2015-02-26 15:36       ` David Laight
2015-02-26 15:46         ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2015-02-26 16:03           ` David Laight
2015-02-26 15:50       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-02-27 22:55       ` David Miller

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