Re: Performance regression in ip_set_swap on 6.1.69

From: David Wang
Date: Wed Jan 10 2024 - 05:28:25 EST


I confirmed this on 6.7 that this was introduced by commit 28628fa952fefc7f2072ce6e8016968cc452b1ba with following changes:

static inline void
@@ -1397,6 +1394,9 @@ static int ip_set_swap(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info,
ip_set(inst, to_id) = from;
write_unlock_bh(&ip_set_ref_lock);

+ /* Make sure all readers of the old set pointers are completed. */
+ synchronize_rcu();
+
return 0;
}

synchronize_rcu causes the delay, and its usage here is very confusing, there is no reclaimer code after it.


FYI
David