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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-03-20 22:58:36 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2006-03-20 22:58:36 -0800
commitf8ae737deea1be001d7d8ac11c382a7b73a1c98f (patch)
treefdf933b58a17e525e38683e1f8d5a52c4708964b /net/bridge/br_device.c
parentfdeabdefb227be9aa932f59a23ddb47e003e643e (diff)
[BRIDGE]: forwarding remove unneeded preempt and bh diasables
Optimize the forwarding and transmit paths. Both places are called with bottom half/no preempt so there is no need to use spin_lock_bh or rcu_read_lock. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_device.c')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_device.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
index 0b33a7b3a00..0c88a2ac32c 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_device.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static struct net_device_stats *br_dev_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
return &br->statistics;
}
+/* net device transmit always called with no BH (preempt_disabled) */
int br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -39,7 +40,6 @@ int br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb->mac.raw = skb->data;
skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN);
- rcu_read_lock();
if (dest[0] & 1)
br_flood_deliver(br, skb, 0);
else if ((dst = __br_fdb_get(br, dest)) != NULL)
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ int br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
else
br_flood_deliver(br, skb, 0);
- rcu_read_unlock();
return 0;
}