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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-05-09 05:35:55 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-09 20:41:40 +0200
commitda37e368763f708d2ae5a81e61ec59372b831cf5 (patch)
tree0ee4b0509caca004aee6a69000d69d67c8bc0eef
parentnet: use batched device unregister in veth and macvlan (diff)
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garp: remove one synchronize_rcu() call
Speedup vlan dismantling in CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q_GVRP=y cases, by using a call_rcu() to free the memory instead of waiting with expensive synchronize_rcu() [ while RTNL is held ] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--include/net/garp.h1
-rw-r--r--net/802/garp.c8
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/garp.h b/include/net/garp.h
index f4c295984c45..8cabbf087169 100644
--- a/include/net/garp.h
+++ b/include/net/garp.h
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ struct garp_applicant {
struct garp_port {
struct garp_applicant __rcu *applicants[GARP_APPLICATION_MAX + 1];
+ struct rcu_head rcu;
};
extern int garp_register_application(struct garp_application *app);
diff --git a/net/802/garp.c b/net/802/garp.c
index c1df2dad8c6b..5dbe8967bbd5 100644
--- a/net/802/garp.c
+++ b/net/802/garp.c
@@ -544,6 +544,11 @@ static int garp_init_port(struct net_device *dev)
return 0;
}
+static void garp_kfree_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ kfree(container_of(head, struct garp_port, rcu));
+}
+
static void garp_release_port(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct garp_port *port = rtnl_dereference(dev->garp_port);
@@ -554,8 +559,7 @@ static void garp_release_port(struct net_device *dev)
return;
}
rcu_assign_pointer(dev->garp_port, NULL);
- synchronize_rcu();
- kfree(port);
+ call_rcu(&port->rcu, garp_kfree_rcu);
}
int garp_init_applicant(struct net_device *dev, struct garp_application *appl)