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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] ifb: RCU locking avoids touching dev refcount
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:45:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEE71EC.7040208@gmail.com> (raw)

Avoids touching dev refcount in hotpath

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ifb.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ifb.c b/drivers/net/ifb.c
index 030913f..69c2566 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ifb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ifb.c
@@ -98,13 +98,15 @@ static void ri_tasklet(unsigned long dev)
 		stats->tx_packets++;
 		stats->tx_bytes +=skb->len;
 
-		skb->dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, skb->iif);
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		skb->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(&init_net, skb->iif);
 		if (!skb->dev) {
+			rcu_read_unlock();
 			dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 			stats->tx_dropped++;
 			break;
 		}
-		dev_put(skb->dev);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		skb->iif = _dev->ifindex;
 
 		if (from & AT_EGRESS) {

             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-02  5:45 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-11-02  7:57 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] ifb: RCU locking avoids touching dev refcount David Miller
2009-11-02 21:14 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-11-02 21:34   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-02 21:40     ` Jarek Poplawski

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