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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-11-01 19:45:16 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-01 23:55:12 -0800
commit05e8689c9a3a208bf75b60662778d81e23eac460 (patch)
tree8253e265212cbd469d1b299c760dc7c38914dbf3
parent3710becf8a58a5c6c4e797e3a3c968c161abdb41 (diff)
ifb: RCU locking avoids touching dev refcount
Avoids touching dev refcount in hotpath Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ifb.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ifb.c b/drivers/net/ifb.c
index 030913f8bd26..69c25668dd63 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ifb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ifb.c
@@ -98,13 +98,15 @@ static void ri_tasklet(unsigned long dev)
stats->tx_packets++;
stats->tx_bytes +=skb->len;
- skb->dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, skb->iif);
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ skb->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(&init_net, skb->iif);
if (!skb->dev) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
stats->tx_dropped++;
break;
}
- dev_put(skb->dev);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
skb->iif = _dev->ifindex;
if (from & AT_EGRESS) {