Re: [PATCH RFC net-next] ipv6: avoid high order memory allocations for /proc/net/ipv6_route

[Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 07:50:24PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> I created this patch in a hurry while trying to get the rt6i_flags of
> the routing entries on a system with lots of routes (I later cleaned it
> up a bit).
> 
> The current approach for dumping routes over netlink is to redump a tree
> as soon as the serialnumber on the nodes changes. Is this behavior more
> preferable as to just ignore the routes for that moment? I am in favour
> of not restarting the dump on /proc/net/ipv6_route.

Ok, I hit the same panics as Patrick once did
while some more stress testing this change
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/151391).

As I read this up, this was also the reason the serial checks where
introduced. It also tries to skip visited notes, so please void my
question above.

The reason is a disconnected fib6_node in FWS_U state trying to walk
up. I'll investigate if we can fix this up in the walker post-cleanup on
fib6_repair_tree/fib6_del_route (then we could also remove the serial
number checks on inet6_dump_fib) or I will make the appropriate serial
changes to this patch, too.

> +int ipv6_route_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> +{
> +	return seq_open_net(inode, file, &ipv6_route_seq_ops,
> +			    sizeof(struct fib6_walker_t));
> +}
> +

sizeof(struct ipv6_route_iter) here, of course. :(

Greetings,

  Hannes