From 1d486bfb66971ebacc2a46a23431ace9af70dc66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Veaceslav Falico Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:02:18 +0100 Subject: net: add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU to notify before mtu change happens Currently, if a device changes its mtu, first the change happens (invloving all the side effects), and after that the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU is sent so that other devices can catch up with the new mtu. However, if they return NOTIFY_BAD, then the change is reverted and error returned. This is a really long and costy operation (sometimes). To fix this, add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU notification which is called prior to any change actually happening, and if any callee returns NOTIFY_BAD - the change is aborted. This way we're skipping all the playing with apply/revert the mtu. CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Jiri Pirko CC: Eric Dumazet CC: Nicolas Dichtel CC: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h') diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 30f6513f3b4d..d7668b881d08 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ struct pcpu_sw_netstats { #define NETDEV_CHANGE 0x0004 /* Notify device state change */ #define NETDEV_REGISTER 0x0005 #define NETDEV_UNREGISTER 0x0006 -#define NETDEV_CHANGEMTU 0x0007 +#define NETDEV_CHANGEMTU 0x0007 /* notify after mtu change happened */ #define NETDEV_CHANGEADDR 0x0008 #define NETDEV_GOING_DOWN 0x0009 #define NETDEV_CHANGENAME 0x000A @@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ struct pcpu_sw_netstats { #define NETDEV_JOIN 0x0014 #define NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER 0x0015 #define NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP 0x0016 +#define NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU 0x0017 /* notify before mtu change happened */ int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); -- cgit v1.2.3