From f1e9016da6d0f16551d90085758ae45d26826118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:54:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net: use rcu for network scheduler API

Use RCU to walk list of network devices in qdisc dump.
This could be optimized for large number of devices.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/sched/sch_api.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
index 1acfd29cc826..876ba4bb6ae9 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c
@@ -1279,9 +1279,10 @@ static int tc_dump_qdisc(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
 
 	s_idx = cb->args[0];
 	s_q_idx = q_idx = cb->args[1];
-	read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	idx = 0;
-	for_each_netdev(&init_net, dev) {
+	for_each_netdev_rcu(&init_net, dev) {
 		struct netdev_queue *dev_queue;
 
 		if (idx < s_idx)
@@ -1302,7 +1303,7 @@ cont:
 	}
 
 done:
-	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	cb->args[0] = idx;
 	cb->args[1] = q_idx;
-- 
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