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[net-next-2.6] mac80211: Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces()

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Delegated to: David Miller
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Eric Dumazet Nov. 5, 2009, 10:06 a.m. UTC
Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces() by factorizing synchronize_rcu() calls

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 net/mac80211/iface.c |   14 +++++---------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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Johannes Berg Nov. 5, 2009, 6:40 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:06 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces() by factorizing synchronize_rcu() calls

Jouni will be pleased for his testing... :)

Looks good to me. Nice simplification too.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

johannes

> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/iface.c |   14 +++++---------
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> index 14f10eb..a445f50 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
> @@ -852,22 +852,18 @@ void ieee80211_if_remove(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
>  void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local)
>  {
>  	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, *tmp;
> +	LIST_HEAD(unreg_list);
>  
>  	ASSERT_RTNL();
>  
> +	mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &local->interfaces, list) {
> -		/*
> -		 * we cannot hold the iflist_mtx across unregister_netdevice,
> -		 * but we only need to hold it for list modifications to lock
> -		 * out readers since we're under the RTNL here as all other
> -		 * writers.
> -		 */
> -		mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
>  		list_del(&sdata->list);
> -		mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
>  
> -		unregister_netdevice(sdata->dev);
> +		unregister_netdevice_queue(sdata->dev, &unreg_list);
>  	}
> +	mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
> +	unregister_netdevice_many(&unreg_list);
>  }
>  
>  static u32 ieee80211_idle_off(struct ieee80211_local *local,
> 
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David Miller Nov. 6, 2009, 8:44 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:07 +0100

> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:06 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces() by factorizing synchronize_rcu() calls
> 
> Jouni will be pleased for his testing... :)
> 
> Looks good to me. Nice simplification too.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> 

I'll leave it to John to integrate this, thanks guys.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 14f10eb..a445f50 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -852,22 +852,18 @@  void ieee80211_if_remove(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 {
 	struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, *tmp;
+	LIST_HEAD(unreg_list);
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
+	mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &local->interfaces, list) {
-		/*
-		 * we cannot hold the iflist_mtx across unregister_netdevice,
-		 * but we only need to hold it for list modifications to lock
-		 * out readers since we're under the RTNL here as all other
-		 * writers.
-		 */
-		mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
 		list_del(&sdata->list);
-		mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
 
-		unregister_netdevice(sdata->dev);
+		unregister_netdevice_queue(sdata->dev, &unreg_list);
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
+	unregister_netdevice_many(&unreg_list);
 }
 
 static u32 ieee80211_idle_off(struct ieee80211_local *local,