mac80211: Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:06:40 +0000 (11:06 +0100)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:49:49 +0000 (13:49 -0500)
Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces() by factorizing synchronize_rcu() calls

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/iface.c

index 1bf12a2..80c16f6 100644 (file)
@@ -860,22 +860,18 @@ void ieee80211_if_remove(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata)
 void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 {
        struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, *tmp;
+       LIST_HEAD(unreg_list);
 
        ASSERT_RTNL();
 
+       mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
        list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &local->interfaces, list) {
-               /*
-                * we cannot hold the iflist_mtx across unregister_netdevice,
-                * but we only need to hold it for list modifications to lock
-                * out readers since we're under the RTNL here as all other
-                * writers.
-                */
-               mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx);
                list_del(&sdata->list);
-               mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
 
-               unregister_netdevice(sdata->dev);
+               unregister_netdevice_queue(sdata->dev, &unreg_list);
        }
+       mutex_unlock(&local->iflist_mtx);
+       unregister_netdevice_many(&unreg_list);
 }
 
 static u32 ieee80211_idle_off(struct ieee80211_local *local,