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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-04-27 22:56:07 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-02 15:26:28 -0700
commite67f88dd12f610da98ca838822f2c9b4e7c6100e (patch)
tree6cf01b794984aaad97b6e6ff6e5103bc48d68191 /include
parentdcfd9cdc1222f14d6180514e533289493a0716fb (diff)
net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks
Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks. I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations. This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow on a workload adding/removing network devices in background. All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does roughly a revert of commits : 1c2d670f366 : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks 6313c1e0992 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks This let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed. It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/net/phonet/pn_dev.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/phonet/pn_dev.h b/include/net/phonet/pn_dev.h
index 13649eb5741..8639de5750f 100644
--- a/include/net/phonet/pn_dev.h
+++ b/include/net/phonet/pn_dev.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void phonet_address_notify(int event, struct net_device *dev, u8 addr);
int phonet_route_add(struct net_device *dev, u8 daddr);
int phonet_route_del(struct net_device *dev, u8 daddr);
void rtm_phonet_notify(int event, struct net_device *dev, u8 dst);
-struct net_device *phonet_route_get(struct net *net, u8 daddr);
+struct net_device *phonet_route_get_rcu(struct net *net, u8 daddr);
struct net_device *phonet_route_output(struct net *net, u8 daddr);
#define PN_NO_ADDR 0xff