[NET]: rtnl_unlock cleanups
authorDenis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:12:58 +0000 (21:12 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:12:58 +0000 (21:12 -0700)
There is no need to process outstanding netlink user->kernel packets
during rtnl_unlock now. There is no rtnl_trylock in the rtnetlink_rcv
anymore.

Normal code path is the following:
netlink_sendmsg
   netlink_unicast
       netlink_sendskb
           skb_queue_tail
           netlink_data_ready
               rtnetlink_rcv
                   mutex_lock(&rtnl_mutex);
                   netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, &rtnetlink_rcv_msg);
                   mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);

So, it is possible, that packets can be present in the rtnl->sk_receive_queue
during rtnl_unlock, but there is no need to process them at that moment as
rtnetlink_rcv for that packet is pending.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/rtnetlink.c

index 739fbad..471d2d9 100644 (file)
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ void __rtnl_unlock(void)
 void rtnl_unlock(void)
 {
        mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);
-       if (rtnl && rtnl->sk_receive_queue.qlen)
-               rtnl->sk_data_ready(rtnl, 0);
        netdev_run_todo();
 }
 
@@ -1319,11 +1317,9 @@ static void rtnetlink_rcv(struct sock *sk, int len)
        unsigned int qlen = 0;
 
        do {
-               mutex_lock(&rtnl_mutex);
+               rtnl_lock();
                qlen = netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, &rtnetlink_rcv_msg);
-               mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);
-
-               netdev_run_todo();
+               rtnl_unlock();
        } while (qlen);
 }