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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>2011-06-21 03:11:20 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-07-01 15:39:53 -0700
commit4e985adaa504c1c1a05c8e013777ea0791a17b4d (patch)
treed2eedf47256577ebfc67f0356c9b348590b560d3 /net/core/dev.c
parente77aeb71f04ed236fffe5f347e208c8b0e92d48a (diff)
rtnl: provide link dump consistency info
This patch adds a change sequence counter to each net namespace which is bumped whenever a netdevice is added or removed from the list. If such a change occurred while a link dump took place, the dump will have the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set in the first message which has been interrupted and in all subsequent messages of the same dump. Note that links may still be modified or renamed while a dump is taking place but we can guarantee for userspace to receive a complete list of links and not miss any. Testing: I have added 500 VLAN netdevices to make sure the dump is split over multiple messages. Then while continuously dumping links in one process I also continuously deleted and re-added a dummy netdevice in another process. Multiple dumps per seconds have had the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set. I guess we can wait for Johannes patch to hit net-next via the wireless tree. I just wanted to give this some testing right away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6b6ef14b42f..4577e6711ec 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ static struct list_head ptype_all __read_mostly; /* Taps */
DEFINE_RWLOCK(dev_base_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_base_lock);
+static inline void dev_base_seq_inc(struct net *net)
+{
+ while (++net->dev_base_seq == 0);
+}
+
static inline struct hlist_head *dev_name_hash(struct net *net, const char *name)
{
unsigned hash = full_name_hash(name, strnlen(name, IFNAMSIZ));
@@ -237,6 +242,9 @@ static int list_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
hlist_add_head_rcu(&dev->index_hlist,
dev_index_hash(net, dev->ifindex));
write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
+
+ dev_base_seq_inc(net);
+
return 0;
}
@@ -253,6 +261,8 @@ static void unlist_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
hlist_del_rcu(&dev->name_hlist);
hlist_del_rcu(&dev->index_hlist);
write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
+
+ dev_base_seq_inc(dev_net(dev));
}
/*