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 <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet
2009-11-04 05:43:23 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d0075634cf
commit c6d14c8456
11 changed files with 68 additions and 77 deletions

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@@ -607,8 +607,8 @@ static void dn_fib_del_ifaddr(struct dn_ifaddr *ifa)
ASSERT_RTNL();
/* Scan device list */
read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, dev) {
dn_db = dev->dn_ptr;
if (dn_db == NULL)
continue;
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static void dn_fib_del_ifaddr(struct dn_ifaddr *ifa)
}
}
}
read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (found_it == 0) {
fib_magic(RTM_DELROUTE, RTN_LOCAL, ifa->ifa_local, 16, ifa);