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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2025-09-28 08:49:32 +0000
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2025-09-30 15:45:52 +0200
commit9c94ae6bb0b2895024b6e29fcc1cbec968b4776a (patch)
treeefd18d0b0c67ebbe5785cddf16d14a00a2f48463 /net/core/dev.c
parent2c0592bd5cadfcd5337eafa07e3145a097cfd880 (diff)
net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
This is preparation work to remove the softnet_data.defer_lock, as it is contended on hosts with large number of cores. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250928084934.3266948-2-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8b54fdf0289a..8566678d8344 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -6726,7 +6726,7 @@ static void skb_defer_free_flush(struct softnet_data *sd)
spin_lock(&sd->defer_lock);
skb = sd->defer_list;
sd->defer_list = NULL;
- sd->defer_count = 0;
+ atomic_set(&sd->defer_count, 0);
spin_unlock(&sd->defer_lock);
while (skb != NULL) {