From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PPATCH net-next-2.6] ipv4: inetdev_by_index() switch to RCU
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:23:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEE6CB8.1000106@gmail.com> (raw)
Use dev_get_by_index_rcu() instead of __dev_get_by_index() and
dev_base_lock rwlock
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 5df2f6a..ccccaae 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -405,11 +405,12 @@ struct in_device *inetdev_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex)
{
struct net_device *dev;
struct in_device *in_dev = NULL;
- read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
- dev = __dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex);
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
if (dev)
in_dev = in_dev_get(dev);
- read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return in_dev;
}
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2009-11-02 5:23 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-11-02 7:56 ` [PPATCH net-next-2.6] ipv4: inetdev_by_index() switch to RCU David Miller
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