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    [NET]: Define infrastructure to keep 'inuse' changes in an efficent SMP/NUMA way. · 286ab3d4
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    "struct proto" currently uses an array stats[NR_CPUS] to track change on
    'inuse' sockets per protocol.
    
    If NR_CPUS is big, this means we use a big memory area for this.
    Moreover, all this memory area is located on a single node on NUMA
    machines, increasing memory pressure on the boot node.
    
    In this patch, I tried to :
    
    - Keep a fast !CONFIG_SMP implementation
    - Keep a fast CONFIG_SMP implementation for often used protocols
    (tcp,udp,raw,...)
    - Introduce a NUMA efficient implementation
    
    Some helper macros are defined in include/net/sock.h
    These macros take into account CONFIG_SMP
    
    If a "struct proto" is declared without using DEFINE_PROTO_INUSE /
    REF_PROTO_INUSE
    macros, it will automatically use a default implementation, using a
    dynamically allocated percpu zone.
    This default implementation will be NUMA efficient, but might use 32/64
    bytes per possible cpu
    because of current alloc_percpu() implementation.
    However it still should be better than previous implementation based on
    stats[NR_CPUS] field.
    
    When a "struct proto" is changed to use the new macros, we use a single
    static "int" percpu variable,
    lowering the memory and cpu costs, still preserving NUMA efficiency.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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