Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] selftests: net: lib: remove ns from list after clean-up

[Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@kernel.org>]

Hi Simon,

Thank you for your reply!

On 14/06/2024 12:40, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) wrote:
>> Instead of only appending items to the list, removing them when the
>> netns has been deleted.
>>
>> By doing that, we can make sure 'cleanup_all_ns()' is not trying to
>> remove already deleted netns.
> 
> I do wonder if we can go a step further and use an associative array for
> ns_list (maybe renamed).  I think this would reduce remove_ns_list to
> something like:
> 
> 	unset ns_list["$item"]

I agree that it would ease the removal of one item -- which is not
complex to deal with the new helper :) -- but do you see any other benefits?

For the moment, there is no other value to associate with, so we would
do something like NS_MAP["$ns"]=1. We could link the name of the global
variable, but that's not needed for the tests for the moment.

Also, I don't know if it is important, but when we will iterate over the
list of netns, it will not be done following the same order items have
been added into the hashmap. So we will change the order in which items
are deleted.

> OTOH, perhaps this breaks with older versions of bash that we still
> care about.

Good point. I don't have the answer, but associative arrays are starting
to be quite old now :)

Cheers,
Matt
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