From: dingtianhong Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 03:09:17 +0000 (+0800) Subject: bonding: remove bond read lock for bond_loadbalance_arp_mon() X-Git-Tag: v3.13-rc1~105^2~125^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7f1bb571b753ac75b6548f0b7c932dfc0bb1f970;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git bonding: remove bond read lock for bond_loadbalance_arp_mon() The bond slave list may change when the monitor is running, the slave list is no longer protected by bond->lock, only protected by rtnl lock(), so we have 3 ways to modify it: 1.add bond_master_upper_dev_link() and bond_upper_dev_unlink() in bond->lock, but it is unsafe to call call_netdevice_notifiers() in write lock. 2.remove unused bond->lock for monitor function, only use the existing rtnl lock(). 3.use rcu_read_lock() to protect it, of course, it will transform bond_for_each_slave to bond_for_each_slave_rcu() and performance is better, but in slow path, it is ignored. so I remove the bond->lock and add the rtnl lock to protect the whole monitor function. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 0a7e3257854..a620dfae1c8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -2396,10 +2396,13 @@ void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct work_struct *work) struct list_head *iter; int do_failover = 0; - read_lock(&bond->lock); + if (!rtnl_trylock()) + goto re_arm; - if (!bond_has_slaves(bond)) + if (!bond_has_slaves(bond)) { + rtnl_unlock(); goto re_arm; + } oldcurrent = bond->curr_active_slave; /* see if any of the previous devices are up now (i.e. they have @@ -2481,13 +2484,12 @@ void bond_loadbalance_arp_mon(struct work_struct *work) write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock); unblock_netpoll_tx(); } + rtnl_unlock(); re_arm: if (bond->params.arp_interval) queue_delayed_work(bond->wq, &bond->arp_work, msecs_to_jiffies(bond->params.arp_interval)); - - read_unlock(&bond->lock); } /*