Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes:

> The openvswitch teardown code will immediately call
> ovs_netdev_detach_dev() in response to a NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.
> It will then start the dp_notify_work workqueue, which will later end up
> calling the vport destroy() callback. This callback takes the RTNL to do
> another ovs_netdev_detach_port(), which in this case is unnecessary.
> This causes extra pressure on the RTNL, in some cases leading to
> "unregister_netdevice: waiting for XX to become free" warnings on
> teardown.
>
> We can straight-forwardly avoid the extra RTNL lock acquisition by
> checking the device flags before taking the lock, and skip the locking
> altogether if the IFF_OVS_DATAPATH flag has already been unset.
>
> Fixes: b07c26511e94 ("openvswitch: fix vport-netdev unregister")
> Tested-by: Adrian Moreno <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]>
> ---

LGTM,

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>

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