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Antoine Tenart authored
Due to deadlocks in the networking subsystem spotted 12 years ago[1], a workaround was put in place[2] to avoid taking the rtnl lock when it was not available and restarting the syscall (back to VFS, letting userspace spin). The following construction is found a lot in the net sysfs and sysctl code: if (!rtnl_trylock()) return restart_syscall(); This can be problematic when multiple userspace threads use such interfaces in a short period, making them to spin a lot. This happens for example when adding and moving virtual interfaces: userspace programs listening on events, such as systemd-udevd and NetworkManager, do trigger actions reading files in sysfs. It gets worse when a lot of virtual interfaces are created concurrently, say when creating containers at boot time. Returning early without hitting the above pattern when the syscall will fail eventually does make things better. While it is not a fix for the issue, it does ease things. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/49A4D5D5.5090602@trash.net/ https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/m14oyhis31.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org/ and https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20090226084924.16cb3e08@nehalam/ [2] Rightfully, those deadlocks are *hard* to solve. Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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