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authorVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>2014-01-16 00:02:18 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-16 17:15:41 -0800
commit1d486bfb66971ebacc2a46a23431ace9af70dc66 (patch)
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net: add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU to notify before mtu change happens
Currently, if a device changes its mtu, first the change happens (invloving all the side effects), and after that the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU is sent so that other devices can catch up with the new mtu. However, if they return NOTIFY_BAD, then the change is reverted and error returned. This is a really long and costy operation (sometimes). To fix this, add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU notification which is called prior to any change actually happening, and if any callee returns NOTIFY_BAD - the change is aborted. This way we're skipping all the playing with apply/revert the mtu. CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> CC: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> CC: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 30f6513f3b4d..d7668b881d08 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ struct pcpu_sw_netstats {
#define NETDEV_CHANGE 0x0004 /* Notify device state change */
#define NETDEV_REGISTER 0x0005
#define NETDEV_UNREGISTER 0x0006
-#define NETDEV_CHANGEMTU 0x0007
+#define NETDEV_CHANGEMTU 0x0007 /* notify after mtu change happened */
#define NETDEV_CHANGEADDR 0x0008
#define NETDEV_GOING_DOWN 0x0009
#define NETDEV_CHANGENAME 0x000A
@@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ struct pcpu_sw_netstats {
#define NETDEV_JOIN 0x0014
#define NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER 0x0015
#define NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP 0x0016
+#define NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU 0x0017 /* notify before mtu change happened */
int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);