percpu(9) has a certain memory storage for each CPU and provides it by the piece
to users. If the storages went short, percpu(9) enlarges them by allocating new
larger memory areas, replacing old ones with them and destroying the old ones.
A percpu storage referenced by a pointer gotten via percpu_getref can be
destroyed by the mechanism after a running thread sleeps even if percpu_putref
has not been called.
Using rtcache, i.e., packet processing, typically involves sleepable operations
such as rwlock so we must avoid dereferencing a rtcache that is directly stored
in a percpu storage during packet processing. Address this situation by having
just a pointer to a rtcache in a percpu storage instead.
Reviewed by ozaki-r@ and yamaguchi@
It seems l2tp(4) call path is too long for instruction cache. So, dividing
l2tp(4) Tx context improves CPU use efficiency.
After this commit, l2tp(4) throughput gains 10% on my machine(Atom C3000).
The tunnel interfaces are gif(4), l2tp(4), and ipsecif(4). They use mutex
itself in percpu area. When percpu_cpu_enlarge() run, the address of the
mutex in percpu area becomes different from the address which lockdebug
saved. That can cause "already initialized" false detection.
