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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 /net/ipv6
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 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index dd88df0a5d7f..4076a0b14b20 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -394,10 +394,11 @@ static int inet6_dump_fib(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
arg.net = net;
w->args = &arg;
+ rcu_read_lock();
for (h = s_h; h < FIB6_TABLE_HASHSZ; h++, s_e = 0) {
e = 0;
head = &net->ipv6.fib_table_hash[h];
- hlist_for_each_entry(tb, node, head, tb6_hlist) {
+ hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(tb, node, head, tb6_hlist) {
if (e < s_e)
goto next;
res = fib6_dump_table(tb, skb, cb);
@@ -408,6 +409,7 @@ next:
}
}
out:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
cb->args[1] = e;
cb->args[0] = h;