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net: add NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU to notify before mtu change happens

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Currently, if a device changes its mtu, first the change happens (invloving
all the side effects), and after that the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU is sent so that
other devices can catch up with the new mtu. However, if they return
NOTIFY_BAD, then the change is reverted and error returned.

This is a really long and costy operation (sometimes). To fix this, add
NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU notification which is called prior to any change
actually happening, and if any callee returns NOTIFY_BAD - the change is
aborted. This way we're skipping all the playing with apply/revert the mtu.

CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
CC: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Veaceslav Falico
2014-01-16 00:02:18 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 31cf344caf
commit 1d486bfb66
2 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
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net/core/dev.c
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@ -5392,6 +5392,11 @@ int dev_set_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
if (!netif_device_present(dev))
return -ENODEV;
err = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU, dev);
err = notifier_to_errno(err);
if (err)
return err;
orig_mtu = dev->mtu;
err = __dev_set_mtu(dev, new_mtu);