From 443457242beb6716b43db4d62fe148eab5515505 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Octavian Purdila Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:44:07 +0000 Subject: net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many Add dev_close_many and dev_deactivate_many to factorize another sync-rcu operation on the netdevice unregister path. $ modprobe dummy numdummies=10000 $ ip link set dev dummy* up $ time rmmod dummy Without the patch With the patch real 0m 24.63s real 0m 5.15s user 0m 0.00s user 0m 0.00s sys 0m 6.05s sys 0m 5.14s Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/sch_generic.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/net/sch_generic.h') diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h index ea1f8a83160d..786cc396cb4a 100644 --- a/include/net/sch_generic.h +++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h @@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ extern void dev_init_scheduler(struct net_device *dev); extern void dev_shutdown(struct net_device *dev); extern void dev_activate(struct net_device *dev); extern void dev_deactivate(struct net_device *dev); +extern void dev_deactivate_many(struct list_head *head); extern struct Qdisc *dev_graft_qdisc(struct netdev_queue *dev_queue, struct Qdisc *qdisc); extern void qdisc_reset(struct Qdisc *qdisc); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 173021072e86a0a5b3d2271347493a3e0d5f68e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Changli Gao Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:35:30 +0000 Subject: net_sched: always clone skbs Pawel reported a panic related to handling shared skbs in ixgbe incorrectly. So we need to revert my previous patch to work around this bug. Instead of reverting the patch completely, I just revert the essential lines, so we can add the previous optimization back more easily in future. commit 3511c9132f8b1e1b5634e41a3331c44b0c13be70 Author: Changli Gao Date: Sat Oct 16 13:04:08 2010 +0000 net_sched: remove the unused parameter of qdisc_create_dflt() Reported-by: Pawel Staszewski Signed-off-by: Changli Gao Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/sch_generic.h | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/net/sch_generic.h') diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h index ea1f8a83160d..79f34e2b752f 100644 --- a/include/net/sch_generic.h +++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h @@ -610,11 +610,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *skb_act_clone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask, { struct sk_buff *n; - if ((action == TC_ACT_STOLEN || action == TC_ACT_QUEUED) && - !skb_shared(skb)) - n = skb_get(skb); - else - n = skb_clone(skb, gfp_mask); + n = skb_clone(skb, gfp_mask); if (n) { n->tc_verd = SET_TC_VERD(n->tc_verd, 0); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b