From c6d14c84566d6b70ad9dc1618db0dec87cca9300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 05:43:23 -0800 Subject: net: Introduce for_each_netdev_rcu() iterator Adds RCU management to the list of netdevices. Convert some for_each_netdev() users to RCU version, if it can avoid read_lock-ing dev_base_lock Ie: read_lock(&dev_base_loack); for_each_netdev(net, dev) some_action(); read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); becomes : rcu_read_lock(); for_each_netdev_rcu(net, dev) some_action(); rcu_read_unlock(); Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sctp/protocol.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/sctp') diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c index d9f4cc2c786..fe44c57101d 100644 --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c @@ -205,14 +205,14 @@ static void sctp_get_local_addr_list(void) struct list_head *pos; struct sctp_af *af; - read_lock(&dev_base_lock); - for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) { + rcu_read_lock(); + for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, dev) { __list_for_each(pos, &sctp_address_families) { af = list_entry(pos, struct sctp_af, list); af->copy_addrlist(&sctp_local_addr_list, dev); } } - read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); } /* Free the existing local addresses. */ -- cgit v1.2.3