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authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>2017-02-04 18:05:07 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-02-06 22:53:13 -0500
commitf7cdee8a79a1cb03fa9ca71b825e72f880b344e1 (patch)
treebda0a6e29e0d7748d2f7e59a8da9c5194f486b36 /net/ax25/af_ax25.c
parent1f90c7f3470580e24da25f6a6c1fb480ed9371ac (diff)
bridge: move to workqueue gc
Move the fdb garbage collector to a workqueue which fires at least 10 milliseconds apart and cleans chain by chain allowing for other tasks to run in the meantime. When having thousands of fdbs the system is much more responsive. Most importantly remove the need to check if the matched entry has expired in __br_fdb_get that causes false-sharing and is completely unnecessary if we cleanup entries, at worst we'll get 10ms of traffic for that entry before it gets deleted. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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hurt us: Imagine a single hyperthreaded CPU (Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270, for example) which updates the microcode on the BSP but since the microcode engine is shared between the two threads, the update on CPU1 doesn't happen because it has already happened on CPU0 and we don't find a newer microcode revision on CPU1. Which doesn't set the intel_ucode_patch pointer and at initrd jettisoning time we don't save the microcode patch for later application. Now, when we suspend to RAM, the loaded microcode gets cleared so we need to reload but there's no patch saved in the cache. Removing the optimization fixes this issue and all is fine and dandy. Fixes: 06b8534cb728 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading") Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-2-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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