Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I'm still getting my head around RCU, so review would be greatly appreciated. It occurs to me that this code is not performance critical, so perhaps simply replacing the rwlock with a spinlock would be better? Index: nf-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c =================================================================== --- nf-next-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c 2010-08-20 22:21:01.000000000 +0900 +++ nf-next-2.6/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sched.c 2010-08-20 22:21:51.000000000 +0900 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ static LIST_HEAD(ip_vs_schedulers); /* lock for service table */ -static DEFINE_RWLOCK(__ip_vs_sched_lock); +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ip_vs_sched_mutex); /* @@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ static struct ip_vs_scheduler *ip_vs_sch IP_VS_DBG(2, "%s(): sched_name \"%s\"\n", __func__, sched_name); - read_lock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + rcu_read_lock_bh(); - list_for_each_entry(sched, &ip_vs_schedulers, n_list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(sched, &ip_vs_schedulers, n_list) { /* * Test and get the modules atomically */ @@ -105,14 +105,14 @@ static struct ip_vs_scheduler *ip_vs_sch } if (strcmp(sched_name, sched->name)==0) { /* HIT */ - read_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + rcu_read_unlock_bh(); return sched; } if (sched->module) module_put(sched->module); } - read_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + rcu_read_unlock_bh(); return NULL; } @@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ int register_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip_v /* increase the module use count */ ip_vs_use_count_inc(); - write_lock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); if (!list_empty(&scheduler->n_list)) { - write_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); ip_vs_use_count_dec(); pr_err("%s(): [%s] scheduler already linked\n", __func__, scheduler->name); @@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ int register_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip_v * Make sure that the scheduler with this name doesn't exist * in the scheduler list. */ - list_for_each_entry(sched, &ip_vs_schedulers, n_list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(sched, &ip_vs_schedulers, n_list) { if (strcmp(scheduler->name, sched->name) == 0) { - write_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); ip_vs_use_count_dec(); pr_err("%s(): [%s] scheduler already existed " "in the system\n", __func__, scheduler->name); @@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ int register_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip_v /* * Add it into the d-linked scheduler list */ - list_add(&scheduler->n_list, &ip_vs_schedulers); - write_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + list_add_rcu(&scheduler->n_list, &ip_vs_schedulers); + spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); pr_info("[%s] scheduler registered.\n", scheduler->name); @@ -212,9 +212,9 @@ int unregister_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip return -EINVAL; } - write_lock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); if (list_empty(&scheduler->n_list)) { - write_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); pr_err("%s(): [%s] scheduler is not in the list. failed\n", __func__, scheduler->name); return -EINVAL; @@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ int unregister_ip_vs_scheduler(struct ip /* * Remove it from the d-linked scheduler list */ - list_del(&scheduler->n_list); - write_unlock_bh(&__ip_vs_sched_lock); + list_del_rcu(&scheduler->n_list); + spin_unlock_bh(&ip_vs_sched_mutex); /* decrease the module use count */ ip_vs_use_count_dec(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html