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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-12-07 15:08:17 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-12-08 17:19:20 -0800
commit3644f0cee77494190452de132e82245107939284 (patch)
tree7aeb1dd32c68e372cc2aaa9d26703dd238b48a53 /net/ipv6
parenteb991b39385c7b04923d701764a34694ec54b53d (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.c17
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);