It seems we can fix this by disabling preemption while we re-balance the
trie. This is with the CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU. It's been stress-tested at high
loads continuesly taking a full BGP table up/down via iproute -batch.
Note. fib_trie is not updated for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Reported-by: Andrei Popa
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
static struct node *trie_rebalance(struct trie *t, struct tnode *tn)
{
int wasfull;
- t_key cindex, key = tn->key;
+ t_key cindex, key;
struct tnode *tp;
+ preempt_disable();
+ key = tn->key;
+
while (tn != NULL && (tp = node_parent((struct node *)tn)) != NULL) {
cindex = tkey_extract_bits(key, tp->pos, tp->bits);
wasfull = tnode_full(tp, tnode_get_child(tp, cindex));
if (IS_TNODE(tn))
tn = (struct tnode *)resize(t, (struct tnode *)tn);
+ preempt_enable();
return (struct node *)tn;
}