From: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:38:06 +0000
> Add a common object cache implementation for RxRPC. This will be used to > cache objects of various types (calls, connections, local and remote > endpoint records). Each object that would be cached must contain an > obj_node struct for the cache to use. The object's usage count and link > pointers are here, plus other internal metadata. > > Each object cache consists of a primary hash to which all objects of that > type must be added and a secondary hash to which objects may also be added > and removed a single time. Objects are automatically removed from both > hashes when they expire. > > Objects start off life with a usage count of 2 - one for the cache and one > for the caller. When an object's usage count is reduced to 1, it sits in > the cache until its expiry time is reached, at which point the cache > attempts to reduce the count to 0 and, if successful, clean it up. An > object with a usage count of 1 in the cache can be looked up and have its > usage count increased, thereby stopping the expiry process. > > Objects are looked up, unlinked and destroyed under RCU-safe conditions. > > A garbage collector cycles through all the hash buckets in the primary hash > and compares the expiry times of the usage-count-1 objects to the current > time, removing any that have expired. This is kicked by a single timer for > the whole cache rather than having a timer per object. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> I know you put a lot of time and effort into this, but I want to strongly recommend against a garbage collected hash table for anything whatsoever. Especially if the given objects are in some way created/destroyed/etc. by operations triggerable remotely. This can be DoS'd quite trivially, and that's why we have removed the ipv4 routing cache which did the same.