mld: add mc_lock for protecting per-interface mld data

The purpose of this lock is to avoid a bottleneck in the query/report
event handler logic.

By previous patches, almost all mld data is protected by RTNL.
So, the query and report event handler, which is data path logic
acquires RTNL too. Therefore if a lot of query and report events
are received, it uses RTNL for a long time.
So it makes the control-plane bottleneck because of using RTNL.
In order to avoid this bottleneck, mc_lock is added.

mc_lock protect only per-interface mld data and per-interface mld
data is used in the query/report event handler logic.
So, no longer rtnl_lock is needed in the query/report event handler logic.
Therefore bottleneck will be disappeared by mc_lock.

Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Taehee Yoo 2021-03-25 16:16:57 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent f185de28d9
commit 63ed8de4be
2 changed files with 194 additions and 116 deletions

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@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ struct inet6_dev {
spinlock_t mc_query_lock; /* mld query queue lock */
spinlock_t mc_report_lock; /* mld query report lock */
struct mutex mc_lock; /* mld global lock */
struct ifacaddr6 *ac_list;
rwlock_t lock;

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