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author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> | 2012-08-08 17:53:19 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-09 19:18:07 -0400 |
commit | aa79e66eee5d525e2fcbd2a5fcb87ae3dd4aa9e9 (patch) | |
tree | fd275880600683733adcb1d84477ea35a04dd901 /net | |
parent | e6f8f1a739b652c56e6f959d6714d92e05621e21 (diff) |
net: Make ifindex generation per-net namespace
Strictly speaking this is only _really_ required for checkpoint-restore to
make loopback device always have the same index.
This change appears to be safe wrt "ifindex should be unique per-system"
concept, as all the ifindex usage is either already made per net namespace
of is explicitly limited with init_net only.
There are two cool side effects of this. The first one -- ifindices of
devices in container are always small, regardless of how many containers
we've started (and re-started) so far. The second one is -- we can speed
up the loopback ifidex access as shown in the next patch.
v2: Place ifindex right after dev_base_seq : avoid two holes and use the
same cache line, dirtied in list_netdevice()/unlist_netdevice()
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 3ca300d85271..1f06df8d10a3 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c | |||
@@ -5221,12 +5221,12 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg) | |||
5221 | */ | 5221 | */ |
5222 | static int dev_new_index(struct net *net) | 5222 | static int dev_new_index(struct net *net) |
5223 | { | 5223 | { |
5224 | static int ifindex; | 5224 | int ifindex = net->ifindex; |
5225 | for (;;) { | 5225 | for (;;) { |
5226 | if (++ifindex <= 0) | 5226 | if (++ifindex <= 0) |
5227 | ifindex = 1; | 5227 | ifindex = 1; |
5228 | if (!__dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex)) | 5228 | if (!__dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex)) |
5229 | return ifindex; | 5229 | return net->ifindex = ifindex; |
5230 | } | 5230 | } |
5231 | } | 5231 | } |
5232 | 5232 | ||