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Jamal Hadi Salim c5e2a97344 rtnl: add helper to check if rtnl group has listeners
As of today, rtnl code creates a new skb and unconditionally fills and
broadcasts it to the relevant group. For most operations this is okay
and doesn't waste resources in general.

When operations are done without the rtnl_lock, as in tc-flower, such
skb allocation, message fill and no-op broadcasting can happen in all
cores of the system, which contributes to system pressure and wastes
precious cpu cycles when no one will receive the built message.

Introduce this helper so rtnetlink operations can simply check if someone
is listening and then proceed if necessary.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208192847.714940-2-pctammela@mojatatu.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-12-11 18:52:56 -08:00
arch Including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2023-12-07 17:04:13 -08:00
block block-6.7-2023-12-01 2023-12-02 06:39:30 +09:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
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drivers nfp: support UDP segmentation offload 2023-12-11 10:01:56 +00:00
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include rtnl: add helper to check if rtnl group has listeners 2023-12-11 18:52:56 -08:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.