From aa79e66eee5d525e2fcbd2a5fcb87ae3dd4aa9e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:53:19 +0000 Subject: net: Make ifindex generation per-net namespace Strictly speaking this is only _really_ required for checkpoint-restore to make loopback device always have the same index. This change appears to be safe wrt "ifindex should be unique per-system" concept, as all the ifindex usage is either already made per net namespace of is explicitly limited with init_net only. There are two cool side effects of this. The first one -- ifindices of devices in container are always small, regardless of how many containers we've started (and re-started) so far. The second one is -- we can speed up the loopback ifidex access as shown in the next patch. v2: Place ifindex right after dev_base_seq : avoid two holes and use the same cache line, dirtied in list_netdevice()/unlist_netdevice() Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core/dev.c') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 3ca300d85271..1f06df8d10a3 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -5221,12 +5221,12 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg) */ static int dev_new_index(struct net *net) { - static int ifindex; + int ifindex = net->ifindex; for (;;) { if (++ifindex <= 0) ifindex = 1; if (!__dev_get_by_index(net, ifindex)) - return ifindex; + return net->ifindex = ifindex; } } -- cgit v1.2.3