From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [PATCH] [NETNS49] support for per/namespace routing cache cleanup Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:39:24 +0200 Message-ID: <47185F2C.1070404@fr.ibm.com> References: <20071017111215.GA29653@iris.sw.ru> <4715F60F.6060304@fr.ibm.com> <4716055D.4010102@sw.ru> <471610E8.8020008@fr.ibm.com> <471617CA.9090901@sw.ru> <471624C0.9020108@fr.ibm.com> <47164CBD.3040107@gmail.com> <471708D8.3080808@bull.net> <471772EB.2060206@sw.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <471772EB.2060206-3ImXcnM4P+0@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: "Denis V. Lunev" Cc: "Denis V. Lunev" , ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, Linux Containers , "Denis V. Lunev" , Benjamin Thery List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Denis V. Lunev wrote: > Benjamin Thery wrote: >> Denis V. Lunev wrote: >>> Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>>> Oh, by the way, I forgot something important you spotted with the list >>>> protected by the mutex. >>>> >>>> When looking at ipv6/fib_hash.c with Benjamin, we need to browse the >>>> network namespaces list for the garbage collecting, but we are in an >>>> interrupt handler, so I can not use rtnl_lock. >>> where exactly.... >> >> Actually, it is in net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c, in fib6_clean_all(). >> >> fib6_clean_all() is called by fib6_run_gc() handler of the >> ip6_fib_timer. If we don't want to have one such timer per net >> namespace, in fib6_clean_all() we have to go through all net to clean >> their own >> fib_table_hash (using for_each_net() protected by rtnl_lock). > > after careful thinking, one timer per/namespace looks better for me :) So you prefer to have multiple timers flushing a portion of a shared routing cache ? It is not impossible I already tryed that for ipv6. it will just touch much more files. If we want, at all costs, to have the routing cache flushed per namespace, I am much more favorable to have a timer per namespace than using the algorithm you sent previously.