net: Fix high overhead of vlan sub-device teardown.

When a networking device is taken down that has a non-trivial number
of VLAN devices configured under it, we eat a full synchronize_net()
for every such VLAN device.

This is because of the call chain:

	NETDEV_DOWN notifier
	--> vlan_device_event()
		--> dev_change_flags()
		--> __dev_change_flags()
		--> __dev_close()
		--> __dev_close_many()
		--> dev_deactivate_many()
			--> synchronize_net()

This is kind of rediculous because we already have infrastructure for
batching doing operation X to a list of net devices so that we only
incur one sync.

So make use of that by exporting dev_close_many() and adjusting it's
interfaace so that the caller can fully manage the batch list.  Use
this in vlan_device_event() and all the overhead goes away.

Reported-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index ec8f9b5f6500..76951c5fbedf 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -2156,6 +2156,7 @@ struct net_device *__dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name);
 int dev_alloc_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *name);
 int dev_open(struct net_device *dev);
 int dev_close(struct net_device *dev);
+int dev_close_many(struct list_head *head, bool unlink);
 void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
 int dev_loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *newskb);
 int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);