inetpeer: remove unused list

Andi Kleen and Tim Chen reported huge contention on inetpeer
unused_peers.lock, on memcached workload on a 40 core machine, with
disabled route cache.

It appears we constantly flip peers refcnt between 0 and 1 values, and
we must insert/remove peers from unused_peers.list, holding a contended
spinlock.

Remove this list completely and perform a garbage collection on-the-fly,
at lookup time, using the expired nodes we met during the tree
traversal.

This removes a lot of code, makes locking more standard, and obsoletes
two sysctls (inet_peer_gc_mintime and inet_peer_gc_maxtime). This also
removes two pointers in inet_peer structure.

There is still a false sharing effect because refcnt is in first cache
line of object [were the links and keys used by lookups are located], we
might move it at the end of inet_peer structure to let this first cache
line mostly read by cpus.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
index 57d0752e239a..69fd7201129a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -398,20 +398,6 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_jiffies,
 	},
 	{
-		.procname	= "inet_peer_gc_mintime",
-		.data		= &inet_peer_gc_mintime,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
-		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_jiffies,
-	},
-	{
-		.procname	= "inet_peer_gc_maxtime",
-		.data		= &inet_peer_gc_maxtime,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
-		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_jiffies,
-	},
-	{
 		.procname	= "tcp_orphan_retries",
 		.data		= &sysctl_tcp_orphan_retries,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),