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authorTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>2010-11-09 10:47:38 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-11-15 10:57:28 -0800
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net: Simplify RX queue allocation
This patch move RX queue allocation to alloc_netdev_mq and freeing of the queues to free_netdev (symmetric to TX queue allocation). Each kobject RX queue takes a reference to the queue's device so that the device can't be freed before all the kobjects have been released-- this obviates the need for reference counts specific to RX queues. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 6e4cfbc53d4c..fccb11f879e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -592,8 +592,7 @@ struct netdev_rx_queue {
struct rps_map __rcu *rps_map;
struct rps_dev_flow_table __rcu *rps_flow_table;
struct kobject kobj;
- struct netdev_rx_queue *first;
- atomic_t count;
+ struct net_device *dev;
} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
#endif /* CONFIG_RPS */