From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Fix rxq ref counting
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:59:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286485149.3745.93.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1010071304240.4792@pokey.mtv.corp.google.com>
Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 13:09 -0700, Tom Herbert a écrit :
> The rx->count reference is used to track reference counts to the
> number of rx-queue kobjects created for the device. This patch
> eliminates initialization of the counter in netif_alloc_rx_queues
> and instead increments the counter each time a kobject is created.
> This is now symmetric with the decrement that is done when an object is
> released.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 7d14955..58b31d1 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5026,7 +5026,6 @@ static int netif_alloc_rx_queues(struct net_device *dev)
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> dev->_rx = rx;
> - atomic_set(&rx->count, count);
>
> /*
> * Set a pointer to first element in the array which holds the
> diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> index fa81fd0..b143173 100644
> --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> @@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ static struct kobj_type rx_queue_ktype = {
> static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *net, int index)
> {
> struct netdev_rx_queue *queue = net->_rx + index;
> + struct netdev_rx_queue *first = queue->first;
> struct kobject *kobj = &queue->kobj;
> int error = 0;
>
> @@ -738,6 +739,7 @@ static int rx_queue_add_kobject(struct net_device *net, int index)
> }
>
> kobject_uevent(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
> + atomic_inc(&first->count);
>
> return error;
> }
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-07 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 20:09 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Fix rxq ref counting Tom Herbert
2010-10-07 20:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-07 20:59 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-10-08 21:35 ` David Miller
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