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From: Vlad Poenaru <vlad.wing@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/sched: Don't wait for RCU when unregistering the qdisc lockdep key
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:02:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019170225.729789-3-vlad.wing@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019170225.729789-1-vlad.wing@gmail.com>

Since commit af0cb3fa3f9e ("net/sched: fix false lockdep warning on
qdisc root lock") every qdisc except ingress, clsact and noqueue
registers a dynamic lockdep key, and destroying it calls
lockdep_unregister_key(), which waits for an expedited RCU grace period.
Replacing an mq root destroys one qdisc per TX queue under RTNL, so a
single "tc qdisc replace dev eth0 root mq" waits for that many grace
periods, each of which IPIs every CPU that is not idle.

The wait is not needed here: __qdisc_destroy() and qdisc_create() free
the qdisc with qdisc_free_rcu() after unregistering, which already
keeps the key's memory valid for a grace period. Use
lockdep_unregister_key_nosync(), and free with kfree_rcu() in the one
qdisc_alloc() error path that used kfree().

On an x86_64 KASAN + PROVE_LOCKING kernel (64 vCPU KVM guest, 64-queue
netdevsim device, 214K lock chains) this removes 5.3 ms of grace-period
wait from each of the 65 qdisc destroys in "tc qdisc replace dev eth0
root handle 1: mq".

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANn89iLvu_ijSV+FnrZ6qei_Ty2c9V-RjwLMk24+oOS91bNjaQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Vlad Poenaru <vlad.wing@gmail.com>
---
 include/net/pkt_sched.h | 3 ++-
 net/sched/sch_generic.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/pkt_sched.h b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
index 90d3e7943b19a..1f4195dabaa57 100644
--- a/include/net/pkt_sched.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_sched.h
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ static inline void qdisc_lock_init(struct Qdisc *sch,
 	lockdep_set_class(&sch->q.lock, &sch->root_lock_key);
 }
 
+/* Free @sch only after an RCU grace period, e.g. with qdisc_free_rcu(). */
 static inline void qdisc_lock_uninit(struct Qdisc *sch,
 				     const struct Qdisc_ops *ops)
 {
@@ -330,7 +331,7 @@ static inline void qdisc_lock_uninit(struct Qdisc *sch,
 	    ops == &noqueue_qdisc_ops)
 		return;
 
-	lockdep_unregister_key(&sch->root_lock_key);
+	lockdep_unregister_key_nosync(&sch->root_lock_key);
 }
 
 #endif
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index 6f6a6f0d5eb0d..28791d4fe35b1 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ struct Qdisc *qdisc_alloc(struct netdev_queue *dev_queue,
 	return sch;
 errout1:
 	qdisc_lock_uninit(sch, ops);
-	kfree(sch);
+	kfree_rcu(sch, rcu);
 errout:
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
-- 
2.53.0-Meta


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-19 17:02 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/sched: don't wait for RCU when destroying qdisc lockdep keys Vlad Poenaru
2026-10-19 17:02 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] lockdep: Introduce lockdep_unregister_key_nosync() Vlad Poenaru
2026-10-19 17:38   ` Eric Dumazet
2026-10-19 17:02 ` Vlad Poenaru [this message]
2026-10-19 17:37   ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/sched: Don't wait for RCU when unregistering the qdisc lockdep key Eric Dumazet
2026-10-19 19:20 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] net/sched: don't wait for RCU when destroying qdisc lockdep keys Boqun Feng

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