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| author | Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> | 2018-03-29 19:20:32 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-03-29 13:47:53 -0400 |
| commit | f0b07bb151b098d291fd1fd71ef7a2df56fb124a (patch) | |
| tree | 24f28ec5ec61e4b0950fef35da79853357a34afb /include/net | |
| parent | 906edee91e79af5a348f1ad1b3f9b4b948db3db7 (diff) | |
net: Introduce net_rwsem to protect net_namespace_list
rtnl_lock() is used everywhere, and contention is very high.
When someone wants to iterate over alive net namespaces,
he/she has no a possibility to do that without exclusive lock.
But the exclusive rtnl_lock() in such places is overkill,
and it just increases the contention. Yes, there is already
for_each_net_rcu() in kernel, but it requires rcu_read_lock(),
and this can't be sleepable. Also, sometimes it may be need
really prevent net_namespace_list growth, so for_each_net_rcu()
is not fit there.
This patch introduces new rw_semaphore, which will be used
instead of rtnl_mutex to protect net_namespace_list. It is
sleepable and allows not-exclusive iterations over net
namespaces list. It allows to stop using rtnl_lock()
in several places (what is made in next patches) and makes
less the time, we keep rtnl_mutex. Here we just add new lock,
while the explanation of we can remove rtnl_lock() there are
in next patches.
Fine grained locks generally are better, then one big lock,
so let's do that with net_namespace_list, while the situation
allows that.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/net_namespace.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h index 1ab4f920f109..47e35cce3b64 100644 --- a/include/net/net_namespace.h +++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static inline struct net *read_pnet(const possible_net_t *pnet) #endif } +/* Protected by net_rwsem */ #define for_each_net(VAR) \ list_for_each_entry(VAR, &net_namespace_list, list) |