Commit 9eb9522
netdevsim: forward skbs from one connected port to another
Forward skbs sent from one netdevsim port to its connected netdevsim
port using dev_forward_skb, in a spirit similar to veth.
Add a tx_dropped variable to struct netdevsim, tracking the number of
skbs that could not be forwarded using dev_forward_skb().
The xmit() function accessing the peer ptr is protected by an RCU read
critical section. The rcu_read_lock() is functionally redundant as since
v5.0 all softirqs are implicitly RCU read critical sections; but it is
useful for human readers.
If another CPU is concurrently in nsim_destroy(), then it will first set
the peer ptr to NULL. This does not affect any existing readers that
dereferenced a non-NULL peer. Then, in unregister_netdevice(), there is
a synchronize_rcu() before the netdev is actually unregistered and
freed. This ensures that any readers i.e. xmit() that got a non-NULL
peer will complete before the netdev is freed.
Any readers after the RCU_INIT_POINTER() but before synchronize_rcu()
will dereference NULL, making it safe.
The codepath to nsim_destroy() and nsim_create() takes both the newly
added nsim_dev_list_lock and rtnl_lock. This makes it safe with
concurrent calls to linking two netdevsims together.
Signed-off-by: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Reviewed-by: Maciek Machnikowski <maciek@machnikowski.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>1 parent f532957 commit 9eb9522
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