net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks

Four years ago, Patrick made a change to hold rtnl mutex during netlink
dump callbacks.

I believe it was a wrong move. This slows down concurrent dumps, making
good old /proc/net/ files faster than rtnetlink in some situations.

This occurred to me because one "ip link show dev ..." was _very_ slow
on a workload adding/removing network devices in background.

All dump callbacks are able to use RCU locking now, so this patch does
roughly a revert of commits :

1c2d670f366 : [RTNETLINK]: Hold rtnl_mutex during netlink dump callbacks
6313c1e0992 : [RTNETLINK]: Remove unnecessary locking in dump callbacks

This let writers fight for rtnl mutex and readers going full speed.

It also takes care of phonet : phonet_route_get() is now called from rcu
read section. I renamed it to phonet_route_get_rcu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/phonet/pn_dev.c b/net/phonet/pn_dev.c
index 947038ddd04c..47b3452675b6 100644
--- a/net/phonet/pn_dev.c
+++ b/net/phonet/pn_dev.c
@@ -426,18 +426,14 @@ int phonet_route_del(struct net_device *dev, u8 daddr)
         return 0;
 }
 
-struct net_device *phonet_route_get(struct net *net, u8 daddr)
+struct net_device *phonet_route_get_rcu(struct net *net, u8 daddr)
 {
         struct phonet_net *pnn = phonet_pernet(net);
         struct phonet_routes *routes = &pnn->routes;
         struct net_device *dev;
 
-        ASSERT_RTNL(); /* no need to hold the device */
-
         daddr >>= 2;
-        rcu_read_lock();
         dev = rcu_dereference(routes->table[daddr]);
-        rcu_read_unlock();
         return dev;
 }