netdev - [PATCH 2/2] decnet: convert dndev

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Date:	Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:40:36 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	steve@...gwyn.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Christine Caulfield <christine.caulfield@...glemail.com>,
	Hannes Eder <hannes@...neseder.net>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-decnet-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] decnet: convert dndev_lock to spinlock

There is no reason for this lock to be reader/writer since
the reader only has lock held for a very brief period.
The overhead of read_lock is more expensive than spinlock.

Compile tested only, I am not a decnet user.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

--- a/net/decnet/dn_dev.c	2009-11-10 17:39:53.652984752 -0800
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_dev.c	2009-11-10 17:41:15.942736073 -0800
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ extern struct neigh_table dn_neigh_table
  */
 __le16 decnet_address = 0;
 
-static DEFINE_RWLOCK(dndev_lock);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dndev_lock);
 static struct net_device *decnet_default_device;
 static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(dnaddr_chain);
 
@@ -557,7 +557,8 @@ rarok:
 struct net_device *dn_dev_get_default(void)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
-	read_lock(&dndev_lock);
+
+	spin_lock(&dndev_lock);
 	dev = decnet_default_device;
 	if (dev) {
 		if (dev->dn_ptr)
@@ -565,7 +566,8 @@ struct net_device *dn_dev_get_default(vo
 		else
 			dev = NULL;
 	}
-	read_unlock(&dndev_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&dndev_lock);
+
 	return dev;
 }
 
@@ -575,13 +577,15 @@ int dn_dev_set_default(struct net_device
 	int rv = -EBUSY;
 	if (!dev->dn_ptr)
 		return -ENODEV;
-	write_lock(&dndev_lock);
+
+	spin_lock(&dndev_lock);
 	if (force || decnet_default_device == NULL) {
 		old = decnet_default_device;
 		decnet_default_device = dev;
 		rv = 0;
 	}
-	write_unlock(&dndev_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&dndev_lock);
+
 	if (old)
 		dev_put(old);
 	return rv;
@@ -589,13 +593,14 @@ int dn_dev_set_default(struct net_device
 
 static void dn_dev_check_default(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-	write_lock(&dndev_lock);
+	spin_lock(&dndev_lock);
 	if (dev == decnet_default_device) {
 		decnet_default_device = NULL;
 	} else {
 		dev = NULL;
 	}
-	write_unlock(&dndev_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&dndev_lock);
+
 	if (dev)
 		dev_put(dev);
 }

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