net: Fix high overhead of vlan sub-device teardown.
When a networking device is taken down that has a non-trivial number
of VLAN devices configured under it, we eat a full synchronize_net()
for every such VLAN device.
This is because of the call chain:
NETDEV_DOWN notifier
--> vlan_device_event()
--> dev_change_flags()
--> __dev_change_flags()
--> __dev_close()
--> __dev_close_many()
--> dev_deactivate_many()
--> synchronize_net()
This is kind of rediculous because we already have infrastructure for
batching doing operation X to a list of net devices so that we only
incur one sync.
So make use of that by exporting dev_close_many() and adjusting it's
interfaace so that the caller can fully manage the batch list. Use
this in vlan_device_event() and all the overhead goes away.
Reported-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index ec8f9b5..76951c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2156,6 +2156,7 @@
int dev_alloc_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *name);
int dev_open(struct net_device *dev);
int dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
+int dev_close_many(struct list_head *head, bool unlink);
void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
int dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb);
int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
