[PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: release lock for the duration of ixgbe_suspend_close()

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Thu May 03 2018 - 00:00:23 EST


Currently, during device_shutdown() ixgbe holds rtnl_lock for the duration
of lengthy ixgbe_close_suspend(). On machines with multiple ixgbe cards
this lock prevents scaling if device_shutdown() function is multi-threaded.

It is not necessary to hold this lock during ixgbe_close_suspend()
as it is not held when ixgbe_close() is called also during shutdown but for
kexec case.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index afadba99f7b8..e7875b58854b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -6748,8 +6748,15 @@ static int __ixgbe_shutdown(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool *enable_wake)
rtnl_lock();
netif_device_detach(netdev);

- if (netif_running(netdev))
+ if (netif_running(netdev)) {
+ /* Suspend takes a long time, device_shutdown may be
+ * parallelized this function, so drop lock for the
+ * duration of this call.
+ */
+ rtnl_unlock();
ixgbe_close_suspend(adapter);
+ rtnl_lock();
+ }

ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter);
rtnl_unlock();
--
2.17.0