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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | 2006-12-07 15:08:17 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-12-08 17:19:20 -0800 |
| commit | 3644f0cee77494190452de132e82245107939284 (patch) | |
| tree | 7aeb1dd32c68e372cc2aaa9d26703dd238b48a53 /net/ipv6 | |
| parent | eb991b39385c7b04923d701764a34694ec54b53d (diff) | |
[NET]: Convert hh_lock to seqlock.
The hard header cache is in the main output path, so using
seqlock instead of reader/writer lock should reduce overhead.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index e9212c7ff5c..7b7bd44fbf4 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -72,20 +72,11 @@ static __inline__ void ipv6_select_ident(struct sk_buff *skb, struct frag_hdr *f static inline int ip6_output_finish(struct sk_buff *skb) { - struct dst_entry *dst = skb->dst; - struct hh_cache *hh = dst->hh; - - if (hh) { - int hh_alen; - - read_lock_bh(&hh->hh_lock); - hh_alen = HH_DATA_ALIGN(hh->hh_len); - memcpy(skb->data - hh_alen, hh->hh_data, hh_alen); - read_unlock_bh(&hh->hh_lock); - skb_push(skb, hh->hh_len); - return hh->hh_output(skb); - } else if (dst->neighbour) + + if (dst->hh) + return neigh_hh_output(dst->hh, skb); + else if (dst->neighbour) return dst->neighbour->output(skb); IP6_INC_STATS_BH(ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); |