Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: Support fine-grained netdevice bulk deletion

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 12/8/21 5:04 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 16:43:28 -0700 David Ahern wrote:
>> On 12/8/21 2:47 PM, Lahav Schlesinger wrote:
>>> No visible changes from what I saw, this API is as fast as group
>>> deletion. Maybe a few tens of milliseconds slower, but it's lost in the
>>> noise.
>>> I'll run more thorough benchmarks to get to a more conclusive conclusion.
>>>
>>> Also just pointing out that the sort will be needed even if we pass an
>>> array (IFLA_IFINDEX_LIST) instead.
>>> Feels like CS 101, but do you have a better approach for detecting
>>> duplicates in an array? I imagine a hash table will be slower as it will
>>> need to allocate a node object for each device (assuming we don't want
>>> to add a new hlist_node to 'struct net_device' just for this)  
>>
>> I think marking the dev's and then using a delete loop is going to be
>> the better approach - avoid the sort and duplicate problem. I use that
>> approach for nexthop deletes:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/tree/net/ipv4/nexthop.c#n1849
>>
>> Find a hole in net_device struct in an area used only for control path
>> and add 'bool grp_delete' (or a 1-bit hole). Mark the devices on pass
>> and delete them on another.
> 
> If we want to keep state in the netdev itself we can probably piggy
> back on dev->unreg_list. It should be initialized to empty and not
> touched unless device goes thru unregister.
> 

isn't that used when the delink function calls unregister_netdevice_queue?