[PATCH RFC net-next 1/3] ipv4: hash uncached routes by device

From: Chris J Arges

Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 16:21:09 EST


rt_flush_dev() currently walks every per-CPU uncached route list for each
device being removed. This repeatedly examines unrelated routes and makes
teardown increasingly expensive as the number of devices grows.

Replace each per-CPU list with 64 hash buckets keyed by the route's
netdevice. Keep the owning-list pointer in dst_entry so route removal
remains unchanged, while device teardown only walks the matching bucket on
each CPU. Hash collisions are filtered by the existing device comparison.

Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <carges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/route.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 604cc51dfd9b..3f9bc1ec72cc 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
#include <linux/inetdevice.h>
+#include <linux/hash.h>
#include <linux/igmp.h>
#include <linux/pkt_sched.h>
#include <linux/mroute.h>
@@ -1552,11 +1553,22 @@ struct uncached_list {
struct list_head head;
};

-static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct uncached_list, rt_uncached_list);
+#define RT_UNCACHED_HASH_BITS 6
+#define RT_UNCACHED_HASH_SIZE BIT(RT_UNCACHED_HASH_BITS)
+
+struct uncached_table {
+ struct uncached_list buckets[RT_UNCACHED_HASH_SIZE];
+};
+
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct uncached_table, rt_uncached_table);

void rt_add_uncached_list(struct rtable *rt)
{
- struct uncached_list *ul = raw_cpu_ptr(&rt_uncached_list);
+ struct uncached_table *table = raw_cpu_ptr(&rt_uncached_table);
+ struct uncached_list *ul;
+
+ ul = &table->buckets[hash_ptr(dst_dev(&rt->dst),
+ RT_UNCACHED_HASH_BITS)];

rt->dst.rt_uncached_list = ul;

@@ -1588,14 +1600,18 @@ void rt_flush_dev(struct net_device *dev)
int cpu;

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- struct uncached_list *ul = &per_cpu(rt_uncached_list, cpu);
+ struct uncached_table *table;
+ struct uncached_list *ul;
+
+ table = per_cpu_ptr(&rt_uncached_table, cpu);
+ ul = &table->buckets[hash_ptr(dev, RT_UNCACHED_HASH_BITS)];

if (list_empty(&ul->head))
continue;

spin_lock_bh(&ul->lock);
list_for_each_entry_safe(rt, safe, &ul->head, dst.rt_uncached) {
- if (rt->dst.dev != dev)
+ if (dst_dev(&rt->dst) != dev)
continue;
rcu_assign_pointer(rt->dst.dev_rcu, blackhole_netdev);
netdev_ref_replace(dev, blackhole_netdev,
@@ -3771,10 +3787,16 @@ int __init ip_rt_init(void)
ip_tstamps = idents_hash + (ip_idents_mask + 1) * sizeof(*ip_idents);

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- struct uncached_list *ul = &per_cpu(rt_uncached_list, cpu);
+ struct uncached_table *table;
+ int bucket;
+
+ table = per_cpu_ptr(&rt_uncached_table, cpu);
+ for (bucket = 0; bucket < RT_UNCACHED_HASH_SIZE; bucket++) {
+ struct uncached_list *ul = &table->buckets[bucket];

- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ul->head);
- spin_lock_init(&ul->lock);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ul->head);
+ spin_lock_init(&ul->lock);
+ }
}
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
ip_rt_acct = __alloc_percpu(256 * sizeof(struct ip_rt_acct), __alignof__(struct ip_rt_acct));

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