net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks
Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink
dump callbacks.
I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making
good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations.
This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow
on a workload adding/removing network devices in background.
All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does
roughly a revert of commits :
1c2d670f366 : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
6313c1e0992 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks
This let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed.
It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu
read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/phonet/pn_netlink.c b/net/phonet/pn_netlink.c
index 58b3b1f..438accb 100644
--- a/net/phonet/pn_netlink.c
+++ b/net/phonet/pn_netlink.c
@@ -264,10 +264,11 @@
struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
u8 addr, addr_idx = 0, addr_start_idx = cb->args[0];
+ rcu_read_lock();
for (addr = 0; addr < 64; addr++) {
struct net_device *dev;
- dev = phonet_route_get(net, addr << 2);
+ dev = phonet_route_get_rcu(net, addr << 2);
if (!dev)
continue;
@@ -279,6 +280,7 @@
}
out:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
cb->args[0] = addr_idx;
cb->args[1] = 0;