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Eric Dumazet says:
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inet_diag: remove three mutexes in diag dumps
Surprisingly, inet_diag operations are serialized over a stack
of three mutexes, giving legacy /proc based files an unfair
advantage on modern hosts.
This series removes all of them, making inet_diag operations
(eg iproute2/ss) fully parallel.
1-2) Two first patches are adding data-race annotations
and can be backported to stable kernels.
3-4) inet_diag_table_mutex can be replaced with RCU protection,
if we add corresponding protection against module unload.
5-7) sock_diag_table_mutex can be replaced with RCU protection,
if we add corresponding protection against module unload.
8) sock_diag_mutex is removed, as the old bug it was
working around has been fixed more elegantly.
9) inet_diag_dump_icsk() can skip over empty buckets to reduce
spinlock contention.
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122112603.3270097-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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