net: Implement read-only protection and COW'ing of metrics.

Routing metrics are now copy-on-write.

Initially a route entry points it's metrics at a read-only location.
If a routing table entry exists, it will point there.  Else it will
point at the all zero metric place-holder called 'dst_default_metrics'.

The writeability state of the metrics is stored in the low bits of the
metrics pointer, we have two bits left to spare if we want to store
more states.

For the initial implementation, COW is implemented simply via kmalloc.
However future enhancements will change this to place the writable
metrics somewhere else, in order to increase sharing.  Very likely
this "somewhere else" will be the inetpeer cache.

Note also that this means that metrics updates may transiently fail
if we cannot COW the metrics successfully.

But even by itself, this patch should decrease memory usage and
increase cache locality especially for routing workloads.  In those
cases the read-only metric copies stay in place and never get written
to.

TCP workloads where metrics get updated, and those rare cases where
PMTU triggers occur, will take a very slight performance hit.  But
that hit will be alleviated when the long-term writable metrics
move to a more sharable location.

Since the metrics storage went from a u32 array of RTAX_MAX entries to
what is essentially a pointer, some retooling of the dst_entry layout
was necessary.

Most importantly, we need to preserve the alignment of the reference
count so that it doesn't share cache lines with the read-mostly state,
as per Eric Dumazet's alignment assertion checks.

The only non-trivial bit here is the move of the 'flags' member into
the writeable cacheline.  This is OK since we are always accessing the
flags around the same moment when we made a modification to the
reference count.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/route.h b/include/net/route.h
index 93e10c453f6b..5677cbf0c6e6 100644
--- a/include/net/route.h
+++ b/include/net/route.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 
 struct fib_nh;
 struct inet_peer;
+struct fib_info;
 struct rtable {
 	struct dst_entry	dst;
 
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ struct rtable {
 	/* Miscellaneous cached information */
 	__be32			rt_spec_dst; /* RFC1122 specific destination */
 	struct inet_peer	*peer; /* long-living peer info */
+	struct fib_info		*fi; /* for client ref to shared metrics */
 };
 
 static inline bool rt_is_input_route(struct rtable *rt)