[PATCH] rtnl_unlock cleanups
From: Denis V. Lunev <hidden>
Date: 2007-10-01 09:50:30
There is no need to process outstanding netlink user->kernel packets
during rtnl_unlock now. There is no rtnl_trylock in the rtnetlink_rcv
anymore.
Normal code path is the following:
netlink_sendmsg
netlink_unicast
netlink_sendskb
skb_queue_tail
netlink_data_ready
rtnetlink_rcv
mutex_lock(&rtnl_mutex);
netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, &rtnetlink_rcv_msg);
mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);
So, it is possible, that packets can be present in the rtnl->sk_receive_queue
during rtnl_unlock, but there is no need to process them at that moment as
rtnetlink_rcv for that packet is pending.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <redacted>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <redacted>
--- ./net/core/rtnetlink.c.rtnl2 2007-08-26 19:30:38.000000000 +0400
+++ ./net/core/rtnetlink.c 2007-10-01 13:09:03.000000000 +0400@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ void __rtnl_unlock(void) void rtnl_unlock(void) { mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex); - if (rtnl && rtnl->sk_receive_queue.qlen) - rtnl->sk_data_ready(rtnl, 0); netdev_run_todo(); }
@@ -1319,11 +1317,9 @@ static void rtnetlink_rcv(struct sock *s unsigned int qlen = 0; do { - mutex_lock(&rtnl_mutex); + rtnl_lock(); qlen = netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, &rtnetlink_rcv_msg); - mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex); - - netdev_run_todo(); + rtnl_unlock(); } while (qlen); }