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bonding: remove bond read lock for bond_loadbalance_arp_mon()

PATCH NAK Ding Tianhong 1 participant 1 message Oct 24, 2013

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PATCH v2 3/5 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 has 3 way 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 exist 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.

---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +6 -4
index ba90f45..149f4b9 100644
@@ -2433,10 +2433,13 @@ 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
@@ -2518,13 +2521,12 @@ 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);
 }
 
 /*
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