netdev - [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: reduce RTNL pressure in unregister

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Message-ID: <20250107173838.1130187-1-edumazet@google.com>
Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2025 17:38:34 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: reduce RTNL pressure in unregister_netdevice()

One major source of RTNL contention resides in unregister_netdevice()

Due to RCU protection of various network structures, and
unregister_netdevice() being a synchronous function,
it is calling potentially slow functions while holding RTNL.

I think we can release RTNL in two points, so that three
slow functions are called while RTNL can be used
by other threads.

Eric Dumazet (4):
  net: no longer assume RTNL is held in flush_all_backlogs()
  net: no longer hold RTNL while calling flush_all_backlogs()
  net: expedite synchronize_net() for cleanup_net()
  net: reduce RTNL hold duration in unregister_netdevice_many_notify()

 include/net/net_namespace.h |  2 ++
 net/core/dev.c              | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 net/core/net_namespace.c    |  5 +++
 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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