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由 Jason Wang 提交于
RCU were introduced in this patch to synchronize the dereferences between tun_struct and tun_file. All tun_{get|put} were replaced with RCU, the dereference from one to other must be done under rtnl lock or rcu read critical region. This is needed for the following patches since the one of the goal of multiqueue tuntap is to allow adding or removing queues during workload. Without RCU, control path would hold tx locks when adding or removing queues (which may cause sme delay) and it's hard to change the number of queues without stopping the net device. With the help of rcu, there's also no need for tun_file hold an refcnt to tun_struct. Signed-off-by: NJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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