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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:48:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F0AE0B.5080101@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpUPQVodJRGmf=GYOVK+R_84w-+yDtqyHCJGbCDH0hb44A@mail.gmail.com>

Le 27/02/2015 18:28, Cong Wang a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com> wrote:
>> Le 27/02/2015 09:01, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 22:32 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
[snip]
>>>
>>> BTW, (void)peernet2id(dev_net(dev), src_net) can fail, and your fix is
>>> not complete anyway.
>>
>> That's true. The patch does not cover the following case:
>> ip link add foo type bar
>> ip link set foo netns netns1
>>
>> In this case, the second command will call dev_change_net_namespace() and
>> the
>> id will not be allocated.
>
> Then call it in do_setlink(). This is not a reason we _have to_
> allocate it in dumping.
Sure, but that just shows the 'over engineering' side ;-)
The reason to allocate it in dumping is that you need it in dumping, not before ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-27 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-27  6:32 [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info Cong Wang
2015-02-27  8:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-27 16:25   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2015-02-27 16:55     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-27 17:07     ` [PATCH] net: do not use rcu in rtnl_dump_ifinfo() Eric Dumazet
2015-02-27 17:19       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-02-27 17:40         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-27 18:35         ` Cong Wang
2015-02-27 17:42       ` [PATCH v2 net] " Eric Dumazet
2015-02-28  0:43         ` Jεan Sacren
2015-02-28  1:05           ` Eric Dumazet
2015-03-01  5:29         ` David Miller
2015-02-27 17:28     ` [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info Cong Wang
2015-02-27 17:48       ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2015-02-28  0:56         ` Cong Wang
2015-02-28  6:17           ` Cong Wang
2015-02-27 18:04       ` Eric Dumazet
2015-02-28  0:48         ` Cong Wang

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