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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-11-05 11:06:40 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-11-25 13:49:49 -0500
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tree25c06fcd2a56feb8831930043ce89b0700481035 /net
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mac80211: Speedup ieee80211_remove_interfaces()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/iface.c14
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 1bf12a26b45e..80c16f6e2af6 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -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,