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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:09:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100203190948.GA5182@x200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265222289.2861.290.camel@tonnant>

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> *). Per namespace cacheing allocation (the cachep bits). We know it's
> still possible for weirdness to happen in the SLAB cache here.

Tiny race, needs reproducer.

> *). Per namespace hashsize tracking. Existing code corrupts hashtables
> if the global size is changed when there is more than one netns

I think, no.
Changing hash size will change hashsize for all netns, current and future.

> *). Per namespace expectations. This is for similar reasons to the need
> for multiple hashtables, though I haven't poked at that.

Expectation cache is not SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, so the logic doesn't
apply, I hope.

> I also think it is necessary to expose net namespace layout

Not necessary. Why?

> and configuration via sysfs

Which configuration?

> or some other interface, add a net->id parameter (and may even an optional name),

No name, please :-)
->id is more or less required for per-netns conntrack cache.

> etc. Where does netns discussion happen, on netdev I would presume?

Yep. And containters@, I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-30  1:10 debug: nt_conntrack and KVM crash Jon Masters
2010-01-30  1:57 ` Jon Masters
2010-01-30  1:59   ` Jon Masters
2010-01-30  6:58     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-30  7:36       ` Jon Masters
2010-01-30  7:40         ` Jon Masters
2010-01-30  8:33         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-01-30 10:03           ` Jon Masters
2010-01-30 10:03             ` Jon Masters
2010-02-01  9:32       ` Jon Masters
2010-02-01  9:32         ` Jon Masters
2010-02-01  9:36         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 10:12           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 10:12             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 10:25             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 10:25               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 10:38               ` Jon Masters
2010-02-01 11:23               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 11:23                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 14:48                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 14:57                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 14:57                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 14:52                 ` [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 14:52                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-01 14:58                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 15:02                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-02 11:04                       ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 11:35                         ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 16:46                           ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 16:48                             ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-02 17:07                               ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 17:58                                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-02 18:16                                   ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 18:34                                     ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 18:36                                     ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-02 18:39                                       ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 18:42                                         ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 12:10                                       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-03 18:38                                         ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 19:09                                           ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2010-02-03 19:43                                             ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 19:46                                               ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 19:53                                                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-03 20:04                                                   ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 19:51                                               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-03 19:53                                                 ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 20:01                                                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-04 12:25                                               ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-04 12:27                                                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-04 12:30                                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-04 12:35                                                     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-04 13:04                                                       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-04 13:18                                                         ` Jon Masters
2010-02-04 13:37                                                           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-04 13:42                                                             ` Jon Masters
2010-02-03 20:21                                         ` Jon Masters
2010-02-04 12:24                                           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-02 16:58                             ` PROBLEM with summary: " Jon Masters
2010-02-02 17:04                               ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-02 17:16                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-02 17:16                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-02 17:23                                   ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02  4:36                   ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02  7:02                     ` Jon Masters
2010-02-02 10:47                   ` Jon Masters
2010-02-04 14:00                   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-01 10:35           ` debug: nt_conntrack and KVM crash Jon Masters
2010-02-01 10:44             ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 10:47               ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 10:49                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-02-01 10:53                   ` Jon Masters

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