llc: use a device based hash table to speed up multicast delivery

This patch adds a per SAP device based hash table to solve the
multicast delivery scalability issue when we have large number of
interfaces and a large number of sockets bound to the same SAP.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/llc.h b/include/net/llc.h
index 1559cf10e874..dbef5917905b 100644
--- a/include/net/llc.h
+++ b/include/net/llc.h
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ struct llc_addr {
 #define LLC_SAP_STATE_INACTIVE  1
 #define LLC_SAP_STATE_ACTIVE    2
 
+#define LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_BITS 6
+#define LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_ENTRIES (1<<LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_BITS)
+
 /**
  * struct llc_sap - Defines the SAP component
  *
@@ -56,8 +59,16 @@ struct llc_sap {
         struct list_head node;
         spinlock_t sk_lock;
         struct hlist_nulls_head sk_list;
+        struct hlist_head sk_dev_hash[LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_ENTRIES];
 };
 
+static inline
+struct hlist_head *llc_sk_dev_hash(struct llc_sap *sap, int ifindex)
+{
+        return &sap->sk_dev_hash[ifindex % LLC_SK_DEV_HASH_ENTRIES];
+}
+
+
 #define LLC_DEST_INVALID         0      /* Invalid LLC PDU type */
 #define LLC_DEST_SAP             1      /* Type 1 goes here */
 #define LLC_DEST_CONN            2      /* Type 2 goes here */