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As of today, rtnl code creates a new skb and unconditionally fills and broadcasts it to the relevant group. For most operations this is okay and doesn't waste resources in general. When operations are done without the rtnl_lock, as in tc-flower, such skb allocation, message fill and no-op broadcasting can happen in all cores of the system, which contributes to system pressure and wastes precious cpu cycles when no one will receive the built message. Introduce this helper so rtnetlink operations can simply check if someone is listening and then proceed if necessary. Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: Victor Nogueira <victor@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: Pedro Tammela <pctammela@mojatatu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208192847.714940-2-pctammela@mojatatu.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.