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>
10 files changed, 29 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2013-05-29	docs: minor: fix whitespacing in copying file	Daniel Borkmann	1	-2/+2
	Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
2013-03-15	all: import netsniff-ng 0.5.8-rc0 source	Daniel Borkmann	1	-0/+347
	We decided to get rid of the old Git history and start a new one for several reasons: ) Allow / enforce only high-quality commits (which was not the case for many commits in the history), have a policy that is more close to the one from the Linux kernel. With high quality commits, we mean code that is logically split into commits and commit messages that are signed-off and have a proper subject and message body. We do not allow automatic Github merges anymore, since they are total bullshit. However, we will either cherry-pick your patches or pull them manually. ) The old archive was about ~27MB for no particular good reason. This basically derived from the bad decision that also some PDF files where stored there. From this moment onwards, no binary objects are allowed to be stored in this repository anymore. The old archive is not wiped away from the Internet. You will still be able to find it, e.g. on git.cryptoism.org etc. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>