commit e0386005ff2a729998735e10769d99e1acbc2dd1
author Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Wed Sep 08 21:31:35 2010 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Wed Sep 08 21:31:35 2010 -0700
tree c04134571b728581d9692fb16dffcdd38d52dbda
parent 92e32eaee288ee2e838fe76680cbaeaea25643c6

net: inet_add_protocol() can use cmpxchg()

Use cmpxchg() to get rid of spinlocks in inet_add_protocol() and
friends.

inet_protos[] & inet6_protos[] are moved to read_mostly section

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

net/ipv4/protocol.c

diff --git a/net/ipv4/protocol.c b/net/ipv4/protocol.c
index f2d2973..65699c2 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/protocol.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/protocol.c
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <net/protocol.h>
 
-const struct net_protocol *inet_protos[MAX_INET_PROTOS] ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inet_proto_lock);
+const struct net_protocol *inet_protos[MAX_INET_PROTOS] __read_mostly;
 
 /*
  *	Add a protocol handler to the hash tables
@@ -37,20 +36,9 @@
 
 int inet_add_protocol(const struct net_protocol *prot, unsigned char protocol)
 {
-	int hash, ret;
+	int hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
 
-	hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
-
-	spin_lock_bh(&inet_proto_lock);
-	if (inet_protos[hash]) {
-		ret = -1;
-	} else {
-		inet_protos[hash] = prot;
-		ret = 0;
-	}
-	spin_unlock_bh(&inet_proto_lock);
-
-	return ret;
+	return !cmpxchg(&inet_protos[hash], NULL, prot) ? 0 : -1;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_add_protocol);
 
@@ -60,18 +48,9 @@
 
 int inet_del_protocol(const struct net_protocol *prot, unsigned char protocol)
 {
-	int hash, ret;
+	int ret, hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
 
-	hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
-
-	spin_lock_bh(&inet_proto_lock);
-	if (inet_protos[hash] == prot) {
-		inet_protos[hash] = NULL;
-		ret = 0;
-	} else {
-		ret = -1;
-	}
-	spin_unlock_bh(&inet_proto_lock);
+	ret = (cmpxchg(&inet_protos[hash], prot, NULL) == prot) ? 0 : -1;
 
 	synchronize_net();
 

net/ipv6/protocol.c

diff --git a/net/ipv6/protocol.c b/net/ipv6/protocol.c
index 1fa3468..9bb936a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/protocol.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/protocol.c
@@ -25,28 +25,14 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <net/protocol.h>
 
-const struct inet6_protocol *inet6_protos[MAX_INET_PROTOS];
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inet6_proto_lock);
-
+const struct inet6_protocol *inet6_protos[MAX_INET_PROTOS] __read_mostly;
 
 int inet6_add_protocol(const struct inet6_protocol *prot, unsigned char protocol)
 {
-	int ret, hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
+	int hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&inet6_proto_lock);
-
-	if (inet6_protos[hash]) {
-		ret = -1;
-	} else {
-		inet6_protos[hash] = prot;
-		ret = 0;
-	}
-
-	spin_unlock_bh(&inet6_proto_lock);
-
-	return ret;
+	return !cmpxchg(&inet6_protos[hash], NULL, prot) ? 0 : -1;
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6_add_protocol);
 
 /*
@@ -57,20 +43,10 @@
 {
 	int ret, hash = protocol & (MAX_INET_PROTOS - 1);
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&inet6_proto_lock);
-
-	if (inet6_protos[hash] != prot) {
-		ret = -1;
-	} else {
-		inet6_protos[hash] = NULL;
-		ret = 0;
-	}
-
-	spin_unlock_bh(&inet6_proto_lock);
+	ret = (cmpxchg(&inet6_protos[hash], prot, NULL) == prot) ? 0 : -1;
 
 	synchronize_net();
 
 	return ret;
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6_del_protocol);