tree 5ec75245cfda4d61e6b4506b6217f047ff4af01a
parent d0075634cf9d288988f57392a1f132d2053af961
author Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> 1257342203 -0800
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1257342203 -0800

net: Introduce for_each_netdev_rcu() iterator

Adds RCU management to the list of netdevices.

Convert some for_each_netdev() users to RCU version, if
it can avoid read_lock-ing dev_base_lock

Ie:
	read_lock(&dev_base_loack);
	for_each_netdev(net, dev)
		some_action();
	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);

becomes :

	rcu_read_lock();
	for_each_netdev_rcu(net, dev)
		some_action();
	rcu_read_unlock();


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