From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3][netns] remove timewait sockets at cleanup
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:36:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FB6B81.4040907@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r6klteod.fsf-T1Yj925okcoyDheHMi7gv2pdwda3JcWeAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
>>
>> Denis Lunev spotted that if we take a reference to the network namespace
>> with the timewait sockets, we will need to wait for their expiration to
>> have the network namespace freed. This is a waste of time, the timewait
>> sockets are for avoiding to receive a duplicate packet from the network,
>> if the network namespace is freed, the network stack is removed, so no
>> chance to receive any packets from the outside world.
>>
>> This patchset remove/destroy the timewait sockets when the
>> network namespace is freed.
>
> This code is in the wrong place. Please do the register_net_subsys
> thing so we can keep the code in net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c
>
> This code just need to be an exit method.
Thanks Eric, I will fix that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 13:29 [patch 0/3][netns] fix and wipeout timewait sockets Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-24 13:29 ` [patch 1/3][netns] add a reference to the netns for timewait Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-24 13:29 ` [patch 2/3][netns] make timewait unhash lock free Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-24 13:29 ` [patch 3/3][netns] remove timewait sockets at cleanup Daniel Lezcano
[not found] ` <20070924133315.075225268-WECHFHqYCmGD/CxQmPlnQ0FT0OZdM7KVQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-26 19:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
[not found] ` <m1r6klteod.fsf-T1Yj925okcoyDheHMi7gv2pdwda3JcWeAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-27 8:36 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
[not found] ` <20070924132935.398625515-WECHFHqYCmGD/CxQmPlnQ0FT0OZdM7KVQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-26 19:24 ` [patch 0/3][netns] fix and wipeout timewait sockets Eric W. Biederman
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