From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6] mac80211: Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces()
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:06:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF2A3B0.4030100@gmail.com> (raw)
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(-)
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,
next reply other threads:[~2009-11-05 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 10:06 Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-11-05 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] mac80211: Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces() Johannes Berg
2009-11-06 8:44 ` David Miller
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