linux-stable/net/bridge
Nikolay Aleksandrov eb7935830d net: bridge: use rhashtable for fdbs
Before this patch the bridge used a fixed 256 element hash table which
was fine for small use cases (in my tests it starts to degrade
above 1000 entries), but it wasn't enough for medium or large
scale deployments. Modern setups have thousands of participants in a
single bridge, even only enabling vlans and adding a few thousand vlan
entries will cause a few thousand fdbs to be automatically inserted per
participating port. So we need to scale the fdb table considerably to
cope with modern workloads, and this patch converts it to use a
rhashtable for its operations thus improving the bridge scalability.
Tests show the following results (10 runs each), at up to 1000 entries
rhashtable is ~3% slower, at 2000 rhashtable is 30% faster, at 3000 it
is 2 times faster and at 30000 it is 50 times faster.
Obviously this happens because of the properties of the two constructs
and is expected, rhashtable keeps pretty much a constant time even with
10000000 entries (tested), while the fixed hash table struggles
considerably even above 10000.
As a side effect this also reduces the net_bridge struct size from 3248
bytes to 1344 bytes. Also note that the key struct is 8 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-13 15:10:01 -05:00
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netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2017-11-08 14:22:50 +09:00
br.c net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change 2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
br_arp_nd_proxy.c bridge: suppress nd pkts on BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS ports 2017-10-08 21:12:04 -07:00
br_device.c net: bridge: use rhashtable for fdbs 2017-12-13 15:10:01 -05:00
br_fdb.c net: bridge: use rhashtable for fdbs 2017-12-13 15:10:01 -05:00
br_forward.c bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd flood 2017-10-08 21:12:04 -07:00
br_if.c net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change 2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
br_input.c net: bridge: Rename mglist to host_joined 2017-11-10 13:41:40 +09:00
br_ioctl.c net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change 2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
br_mdb.c net: use rtnl_register_module where needed 2017-12-04 11:32:39 -05:00
br_multicast.c net: bridge: Send notification when host join/leaves a group 2017-11-10 13:41:40 +09:00
br_netfilter_hooks.c netfilter: convert hook list to an array 2017-08-28 17:44:00 +02:00
br_netfilter_ipv6.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
br_netlink.c net: bridge: add vlan_tunnel to bridge port policies 2017-11-14 21:54:55 +09:00
br_netlink_tunnel.c bridge: netlink: make setlink/dellink notifications more accurate 2017-10-29 11:03:43 +09:00
br_nf_core.c xfrm: Move dst->path into struct xfrm_dst 2017-11-30 09:54:26 -05:00
br_private.h net: bridge: use rhashtable for fdbs 2017-12-13 15:10:01 -05:00
br_private_stp.h
br_private_tunnel.h bridge: netlink: make setlink/dellink notifications more accurate 2017-10-29 11:03:43 +09:00
br_stp.c net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change 2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
br_stp_bpdu.c net: introduce __skb_put_[zero, data, u8] 2017-06-20 13:30:14 -04:00
br_stp_if.c net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change 2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
br_stp_timer.c net: bridge: Convert timers to use timer_setup() 2017-11-03 15:42:49 +09:00
br_switchdev.c net: bridge: use rhashtable for fdbs 2017-12-13 15:10:01 -05:00
br_sysfs_br.c net: bridge: constify attribute_group structures. 2017-06-29 15:48:52 -04:00
br_sysfs_if.c net: bridge: add notifications for the bridge dev on vlan change 2017-11-02 15:53:40 +09:00
br_vlan.c bridge: vlan: signal if anything changed on vlan add 2017-10-29 11:03:43 +09:00
br_vlan_tunnel.c bridge: vlan_tunnel: explicitly reset metadata attrs to NULL on failure 2017-02-17 13:33:41 -05:00
Kconfig
Makefile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-11-04 09:26:51 +09:00