Commit 8f0db018 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by David S. Miller
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rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket.

This patch changes rhashtables to use a bit_spin_lock on BIT(1) of the
bucket pointer to lock the hash chain for that bucket.

The benefits of a bit spin_lock are:
 - no need to allocate a separate array of locks.
 - no need to have a configuration option to guide the
   choice of the size of this array
 - locking cost is often a single test-and-set in a cache line
   that will have to be loaded anyway.  When inserting at, or removing
   from, the head of the chain, the unlock is free - writing the new
   address in the bucket head implicitly clears the lock bit.
   For __rhashtable_insert_fast() we ensure this always happens
   when adding a new key.
 - even when lockings costs 2 updates (lock and unlock), they are
   in a cacheline that needs to be read anyway.

The cost of using a bit spin_lock is a little bit of code complexity,
which I think is quite manageable.

Bit spin_locks are sometimes inappropriate because they are not fair -
if multiple C...
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