From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit df6afe2f7c19349de2ee560dc62ea4d9ad3ff889 ] While insertion of 16k nexthops all using the same netdev ('dummy10') takes less than a second, deletion takes about 130 seconds: # time -p ip -b nexthop.batch real 0.29 user 0.01 sys 0.15 # time -p ip link set dev dummy10 down real 131.03 user 0.06 sys 0.52 This is because of repeated calls to synchronize_rcu() whenever a nexthop is removed from a nexthop group: # /usr/share/bcc/tools/offcputime -p `pgrep -nx ip` -K ... b'finish_task_switch' b'schedule' b'schedule_timeout' b'wait_for_completion' b'__wait_rcu_gp' b'synchronize_rcu.part.0' b'synchronize_rcu' b'__remove_nexthop' b'remove_nexthop' b'nexthop_flush_dev' b'nh_netdev_event' b'raw_notifier_call_chain' b'call_netdevice_notifiers_info' b'__dev_notify_flags' b'dev_change_flags' b'do_setlink' b'__rtnl_newlink' b'rtnl_newlink' b'rtnetlink_rcv_msg' b'netlink_rcv_skb' b'rtnetlink_rcv' b'netlink_unicast' b'netlink_sendmsg' b'____sys_sendmsg' b'___sys_sendmsg' b'__sys_sendmsg' b'__x64_sys_sendmsg' b'do_syscall_64' b'entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe' - ip (277) 126554955 Since nexthops are always deleted under RTNL, synchronize_net() can be used instead. It will call synchronize_rcu_expedited() which only blocks for several microseconds as opposed to multiple milliseconds like synchronize_rcu(). With this patch deletion of 16k nexthops takes less than a second: # time -p ip link set dev dummy10 down real 0.12 user 0.00 sys 0.04 Tested with fib_nexthops.sh which includes torture tests that prompted the initial change: # ./fib_nexthops.sh ... Tests passed: 134 Tests failed: 0 Fixes: 90f33bffa382 ("nexthops: don't modify published nexthop groups") Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201016172914.643282-1-idosch@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/nexthop.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/nexthop.c +++ b/net/ipv4/nexthop.c @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ static void remove_nexthop_from_groups(s remove_nh_grp_entry(net, nhge, nlinfo); /* make sure all see the newly published array before releasing rtnl */ - synchronize_rcu(); + synchronize_net(); } static void remove_nexthop_group(struct nexthop *nh, struct nl_info *nlinfo)