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authorTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>2010-11-09 13:47:38 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-11-15 21:57:28 +0300
commitfe8222406c8277a21172479d3a8283d31c209028 (patch)
tree89876457391fba73e3c2c9fdbf9c28a980ad4ffc /net/core/dev.c
parented9af2e839c06c18f721da2c768fbb444c4a10e5 (diff)
downloadlinux-fe8222406c8277a21172479d3a8283d31c209028.tar.xz
net: Simplify RX queue allocation
This patch move RX queue allocation to alloc_netdev_mq and freeing of the queues to free_netdev (symmetric to TX queue allocation). Each kobject RX queue takes a reference to the queue's device so that the device can't be freed before all the kobjects have been released-- this obviates the need for reference counts specific to RX queues. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c19
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 75490670e0a9..8725d168d1f5 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5051,12 +5051,8 @@ static int netif_alloc_rx_queues(struct net_device *dev)
}
dev->_rx = rx;
- /*
- * Set a pointer to first element in the array which holds the
- * reference count.
- */
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
- rx[i].first = rx;
+ rx[i].dev = dev;
#endif
return 0;
}
@@ -5132,10 +5128,6 @@ int register_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
dev->iflink = -1;
- ret = netif_alloc_rx_queues(dev);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
netdev_init_queues(dev);
/* Init, if this function is available */
@@ -5601,6 +5593,8 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
dev->num_rx_queues = queue_count;
dev->real_num_rx_queues = queue_count;
+ if (netif_alloc_rx_queues(dev))
+ goto free_pcpu;
#endif
dev->gso_max_size = GSO_MAX_SIZE;
@@ -5618,6 +5612,10 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
free_pcpu:
free_percpu(dev->pcpu_refcnt);
kfree(dev->_tx);
+#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
+ kfree(dev->_rx);
+#endif
+
free_p:
kfree(p);
return NULL;
@@ -5639,6 +5637,9 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
release_net(dev_net(dev));
kfree(dev->_tx);
+#ifdef CONFIG_RPS
+ kfree(dev->_rx);
+#endif
kfree(rcu_dereference_raw(dev->ingress_queue));