This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fib_trie: Drop unnecessary calls to leaf_pull_suffix to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fib_trie-drop-unnecessary-calls-to-leaf_pull_suffix.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015 From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:08:06 -0700 Subject: fib_trie: Drop unnecessary calls to leaf_pull_suffix From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1513069edcf8dd86cfd8d5daef482b97d6b93df6 ] It was reported that update_suffix was taking a long time on systems where a large number of leaves were attached to a single node. As it turns out fib_table_flush was calling update_suffix for each leaf that didn't have all of the aliases stripped from it. As a result, on this large node removing one leaf would result in us calling update_suffix for every other leaf on the node. The fix is to just remove the calls to leaf_pull_suffix since they are redundant as we already have a call in resize that will go through and update the suffix length for the node before we exit out of fib_table_flush or fib_table_flush_external. Reported-by: David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: David Ahern <dsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c @@ -1780,8 +1780,6 @@ void fib_table_flush_external(struct fib if (hlist_empty(&n->leaf)) { put_child_root(pn, n->key, NULL); node_free(n); - } else { - leaf_pull_suffix(pn, n); } } } @@ -1852,8 +1850,6 @@ int fib_table_flush(struct fib_table *tb if (hlist_empty(&n->leaf)) { put_child_root(pn, n->key, NULL); node_free(n); - } else { - leaf_pull_suffix(pn, n); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/ipv4-off-by-one-in-continuation-handling-in-proc-net-route.patch queue-4.1/fib_trie-drop-unnecessary-calls-to-leaf_pull_suffix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html