net/sched: do not reset queues in graft operations

Following typical script is extremely disruptive,
because each graft operation calls dev_deactivate()
which resets all the queues of the device.

QPARAM="limit 100000 flow_limit 1000 buckets 4096"
TXQS=64
for ETH in eth1
do
 tc qd del dev $ETH root 2>/dev/null
 tc qd add dev $ETH root handle 1: mq
 for i in `seq 1 $TXQS`
 do
   slot=$( printf %x $(( i )) )
   tc qd add dev $ETH parent 1:$slot fq $QPARAM
 done
done

One can add "ip link set dev $ETH down/up" to reduce the disruption time:

QPARAM="limit 100000 flow_limit 1000 buckets 4096"
TXQS=64
for ETH in eth1
do
 ip link set dev $ETH down
 tc qd del dev $ETH root 2>/dev/null
 tc qd add dev $ETH root handle 1: mq
 for i in `seq 1 $TXQS`
 do
   slot=$( printf %x $(( i )) )
   tc qd add dev $ETH parent 1:$slot fq $QPARAM
 done
 ip link set dev $ETH up
done

Or we can add a @reset_needed flag to dev_deactivate() and
dev_deactivate_many().

This flag is set to true at device dismantle or linkwatch_do_dev(),
and to false for graft operations.

In the future, we might only stop one queue instead of the whole
device, ie call dev_deactivate_queue() instead of dev_deactivate().

I think the problem (quadratic behavior) was added in commit
2fb541c862c9 ("net: sch_generic: aviod concurrent reset and enqueue op
for lockless qdisc") but this does not look serious enough to deserve
risky backports.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Reviewed-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260307163430.470644-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 203dc36aaed5..6fc9350f0be8 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1756,7 +1756,7 @@ static void __dev_close_many(struct list_head *head)
 		smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* Commit netif_running(). */
 	}
 
-	dev_deactivate_many(head);
+	dev_deactivate_many(head, true);
 
 	list_for_each_entry(dev, head, close_list) {
 		const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;