linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/2] ipvs: Use cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper when dumping connections

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Date:	Wed,  1 May 2013 17:57:53 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] ipvs: Use cond_resched_rcu_lock() helper when dumping connections

This avoids the situation where a dump of a large number of connections
may prevent scheduling for a long time while also avoiding excessive
calls to rcu_read_unlock() and rcu_read_lock().

Note that in the case of !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU this will
add a call to cond_resched().

Compile tested only.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
index a083bda..42a7b33 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c
@@ -975,8 +975,7 @@ static void *ip_vs_conn_array(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t pos)
 				return cp;
 			}
 		}
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-		rcu_read_lock();
+		cond_resched_rcu_lock();
 	}
 
 	return NULL;
@@ -1015,8 +1014,7 @@ static void *ip_vs_conn_seq_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 			iter->l = &ip_vs_conn_tab[idx];
 			return cp;
 		}
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-		rcu_read_lock();
+		cond_resched_rcu_lock();
 	}
 	iter->l = NULL;
 	return NULL;
-- 
1.8.2.1

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