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| -rw-r--r-- | net/Kconfig.debug | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/Kconfig.debug b/net/Kconfig.debug index 5e3fffe707dd..277fab8c4d77 100644 --- a/net/Kconfig.debug +++ b/net/Kconfig.debug @@ -24,3 +24,18 @@ config DEBUG_NET help Enable extra sanity checks in networking. This is mostly used by fuzzers, but is safe to select. + +config DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL + bool "Add extra per-netns mutex inside RTNL" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && NET && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT + select PROVE_LOCKING + default n + help + rtnl_lock() is being replaced with rtnl_net_lock() that + acquires the global RTNL and a small per-netns RTNL mutex. + + During the conversion, rtnl_net_lock() just adds an extra + mutex in every RTNL scope and slows down the operations. + + Once the conversion completes, rtnl_lock() will be removed + and rtnetlink will gain per-netns scalability. |