From c6d14c84566d6b70ad9dc1618db0dec87cca9300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:43:23 -0800 Subject: net: Introduce for_each_netdev_rcu() iterator Adds RCU management to the list of netdevices. Convert some for_each_netdev() users to RCU version, if it can avoid read_lock-ing dev_base_lock Ie: read_lock(&dev_base_loack); for_each_netdev(net, dev) some_action(); read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); becomes : rcu_read_lock(); for_each_netdev_rcu(net, dev) some_action(); rcu_read_unlock(); Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index bcf1083857fc..5077de028317 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1081,6 +1081,8 @@ extern rwlock_t dev_base_lock; /* Device list lock */ #define for_each_netdev(net, d) \ list_for_each_entry(d, &(net)->dev_base_head, dev_list) +#define for_each_netdev_rcu(net, d) \ + list_for_each_entry_rcu(d, &(net)->dev_base_head, dev_list) #define for_each_netdev_safe(net, d, n) \ list_for_each_entry_safe(d, n, &(net)->dev_base_head, dev_list) #define for_each_netdev_continue(net, d) \ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b