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net: Introduce dev_get_by_name_rcu()

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Some workloads hit dev_base_lock rwlock pretty hard.
We can use RCU lookups to avoid touching this rwlock
(and avoid touching netdevice refcount)

netdevices are already freed after a RCU grace period, so this patch
adds no penalty at device dismantle time.

However, it adds a synchronize_rcu() call in dev_change_name()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet
2009-10-30 07:11:27 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 68d8287ce1
commit 72c9528bab
2 changed files with 41 additions and 9 deletions
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include/linux/netdevice.h
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@@ -1115,6 +1115,7 @@ extern void __dev_remove_pack(struct packet_type *pt);
extern struct net_device *dev_get_by_flags(struct net *net, unsigned short flags,
unsigned short mask);
extern struct net_device *dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name);
extern struct net_device *dev_get_by_name_rcu(struct net *net, const char *name);
extern struct net_device *__dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name);
extern int dev_alloc_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *name);
extern int dev_open(struct net_device *dev);