From 1d486bfb66971ebacc2a46a23431ace9af70dc66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Veaceslav Falico Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:02:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU to notify before mtu change happens Currently, if a device changes its mtu, first the change happens (invloving all the side effects), and after that the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU is sent so that other devices can catch up with the new mtu. However, if they return NOTIFY_BAD, then the change is reverted and error returned. This is a really long and costy operation (sometimes). To fix this, add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU notification which is called prior to any change actually happening, and if any callee returns NOTIFY_BAD - the change is aborted. This way we're skipping all the playing with apply/revert the mtu. CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Jiri Pirko CC: Eric Dumazet CC: Nicolas Dichtel CC: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed