net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice_many
Add dev_close_many and dev_deactivate_many to factorize another
sync-rcu operation on the netdevice unregister path.
$ modprobe dummy numdummies=10000
$ ip link set dev dummy* up
$ time rmmod dummy
Without the patch With the patch
real 0m 24.63s real 0m 5.15s
user 0m 0.00s user 0m 0.00s
sys 0m 6.05s sys 0m 5.14s
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/sch_generic.h b/include/net/sch_generic.h
index ea1f8a8..786cc39 100644
--- a/include/net/sch_generic.h
+++ b/include/net/sch_generic.h
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@
extern void dev_shutdown(struct net_device *dev);
extern void dev_activate(struct net_device *dev);
extern void dev_deactivate(struct net_device *dev);
+extern void dev_deactivate_many(struct list_head *head);
extern struct Qdisc *dev_graft_qdisc(struct netdev_queue *dev_queue,
struct Qdisc *qdisc);
extern void qdisc_reset(struct Qdisc *qdisc);