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Commit 143976ce authored by WANG Cong's avatar WANG Cong Committed by David S. Miller
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net_sched: remove tc class reference counting


For TC classes, their ->get() and ->put() are always paired, and the
reference counting is completely useless, because:

1) For class modification and dumping paths, we already hold RTNL lock,
   so all of these ->get(),->change(),->put() are atomic.

2) For filter bindiing/unbinding, we use other reference counter than
   this one, and they should have RTNL lock too.

3) For ->qlen_notify(), it is special because it is called on ->enqueue()
   path, but we already hold qdisc tree lock there, and we hold this
   tree lock when graft or delete the class too, so it should not be gone
   or changed until we release the tree lock.

Therefore, this patch removes ->get() and ->put(), but:

1) Adds a new ->find() to find the pointer to a class by classid, no
   refcnt.

2) Move the original class destroy upon the last refcnt into ->delete(),
   right after releasing tree lock. This is fine because the class is
   already removed from hash when holding the lock.

For those who also use ->put() as ->unbind(), just rename them to reflect
this change.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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