netdev - [PATCH] rtnl_unlock cleanups

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Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:51:06 +0400
From:	"Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	devel@...nvz.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	kaber@...sh.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rtnl_unlock cleanups

There is no need to process outstanding netlink user->kernel packets
during rtnl_unlock now. There is no rtnl_trylock in the rtnetlink_rcv
anymore.

Normal code path is the following:
netlink_sendmsg
   netlink_unicast
       netlink_sendskb
           skb_queue_tail
           netlink_data_ready
               rtnetlink_rcv
                   mutex_lock(&rtnl_mutex);
                   netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, &rtnetlink_rcv_msg);
                   mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);

So, it is possible, that packets can be present in the rtnl->sk_receive_queue
during rtnl_unlock, but there is no need to process them at that moment as
rtnetlink_rcv for that packet is pending.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@...nvz.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>

--- ./net/core/rtnetlink.c.rtnl2	2007-08-26 19:30:38.000000000 +0400
+++ ./net/core/rtnetlink.c	2007-10-01 13:09:03.000000000 +0400
@@ -75,8 +75,6 @@ void __rtnl_unlock(void)
 void rtnl_unlock(void)
 {
 	mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);
-	if (rtnl && rtnl->sk_receive_queue.qlen)
-		rtnl->sk_data_ready(rtnl, 0);
 	netdev_run_todo();
 }
 
@@ -1319,11 +1317,9 @@ static void rtnetlink_rcv(struct sock *s
 	unsigned int qlen = 0;
 
 	do {
-		mutex_lock(&rtnl_mutex);
+		rtnl_lock();
 		qlen = netlink_run_queue(sk, qlen, &rtnetlink_rcv_msg);
-		mutex_unlock(&rtnl_mutex);
-
-		netdev_run_todo();
+		rtnl_unlock();
 	} while (qlen);
 }
 
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