> Wei Wan is actually working on a patch series removing all this > dst_garbage list stuff.
Yes. I am working on removing the dst garbage collector completely. dst_dev_event() will be removed from the list of callbacks that the netdevice notifiers invoke in my patch series. On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 13:12 -0700, Krister Johansen wrote: > > ... > >> Looking at the gc_task intervals, they started at 663ms when we invoked >> __dst_free(). After that, they increased to 1663, 3136, 5567, 8191, >> 10751, and 14848. The release that set the refcnt to 0 on our dst entry >> occurred after the gc_task was enqueued for 14 second interval so we had >> to wait longer than the warning time in wait_allrefs in order for the >> dst entry to get free'd and the hold on 'lo' to be released. >> >> A simple solution to this problem is to have dst_dev_event() reset the >> gc timer, which causes us to process this list shortly after the >> gc_mutex is relased when dst_dev_event() completes. >> >> Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <k...@templeofstupid.com> >> --- >> net/core/dst.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c >> index 6192f11..13ba4a0 100644 >> --- a/net/core/dst.c >> +++ b/net/core/dst.c >> @@ -469,6 +469,20 @@ static int dst_dev_event(struct notifier_block *this, >> unsigned long event, >> spin_lock_bh(&dst_garbage.lock); >> dst = dst_garbage.list; >> dst_garbage.list = NULL; >> + /* The code in dst_ifdown places a hold on the loopback device. >> + * If the gc entry processing is set to expire after a lengthy >> + * interval, this hold can cause netdev_wait_allrefs() to hang >> + * out and wait for a long time -- until the the loopback >> + * interface is released. If we're really unlucky, it'll emit >> + * pr_emerg messages to console too. Reset the interval here, >> + * so dst cleanups occur in a more timely fashion. >> + */ >> + if (dst_garbage.timer_inc > DST_GC_INC) { >> + dst_garbage.timer_inc = DST_GC_INC; >> + dst_garbage.timer_expires = DST_GC_MIN; >> + mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &dst_gc_work, >> + dst_garbage.timer_expires); >> + } >> spin_unlock_bh(&dst_garbage.lock); >> >> if (last) > > Looks very nice to me ! > > Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> > > Wei Wan is actually working on a patch series removing all this > dst_garbage list stuff. > > >