From 99c4a26a159b28fa46a3e746a9b41b297e73d261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:52:33 -0400 Subject: net: Fix high overhead of vlan sub-device teardown. When a networking device is taken down that has a non-trivial number of VLAN devices configured under it, we eat a full synchronize_net() for every such VLAN device. This is because of the call chain: NETDEV_DOWN notifier --> vlan_device_event() --> dev_change_flags() --> __dev_change_flags() --> __dev_close() --> __dev_close_many() --> dev_deactivate_many() --> synchronize_net() This is kind of rediculous because we already have infrastructure for batching doing operation X to a list of net devices so that we only incur one sync. So make use of that by exporting dev_close_many() and adjusting it's interfaace so that the caller can fully manage the batch list. Use this in vlan_device_event() and all the overhead goes away. Reported-by: Salam Noureddine Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index ec8f9b5f6500..76951c5fbedf 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -2156,6 +2156,7 @@ struct net_device *__dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name); int dev_alloc_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *name); int dev_open(struct net_device *dev); int dev_close(struct net_device *dev); +int dev_close_many(struct list_head *head, bool unlink); void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev); int dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb); int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb); -- cgit v1.2.1