net: Convert TCP & DCCP hash tables to use RCU / hlist_nulls

RCU was added to UDP lookups, using a fast infrastructure :
- sockets kmem_cache use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and dont pay the
  price of call_rcu() at freeing time.
- hlist_nulls permits to use few memory barriers.

This patch uses same infrastructure for TCP/DCCP established
and timewait sockets.

Thanks to SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, no slowdown for applications
using short lived TCP connections. A followup patch, converting
rwlocks to spinlocks will even speedup this case.

__inet_lookup_established() is pretty fast now we dont have to
dirty a contended cache line (read_lock/read_unlock)

Only established and timewait hashtable are converted to RCU
(bind table and listen table are still using traditional locking)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/inet_hashtables.h b/include/net/inet_hashtables.h
index cb31fbf8ae2a..481896045111 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_hashtables.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_hashtables.h
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
  * I'll experiment with dynamic table growth later.
  */
 struct inet_ehash_bucket {
-        struct hlist_head chain;
-        struct hlist_head twchain;
+        struct hlist_nulls_head chain;
+        struct hlist_nulls_head twchain;
 };
 
 /* There are a few simple rules, which allow for local port reuse by