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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TUN problems (regression?)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:32:43 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D3D85B.1070605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121220155001.538bbdb0@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

On 12/21/2012 07:50 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:38:17 -0800
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 18:16 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
>>> [CC'ing netdev in case this is a known problem I just missed ...]
>>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> I started doing some more testing with the multiqueue TUN changes and I ran 
>>> into a problem when running tunctl: running it once w/o arguments works as 
>>> expected, but running it a second time results in failure and a 
>>> kmem_cache_sanity_check() failure.  The problem appears to be very repeatable 
>>> on my test VM and happens independent of the LSM/SELinux fixup patches.
>>>
>>> Have you seen this before?
>>>
>> Obviously code in tun_flow_init() is wrong...
>>
>> static int tun_flow_init(struct tun_struct *tun)
>> {
>>         int i;
>>
>>         tun->flow_cache = kmem_cache_create("tun_flow_cache",
>>                                             sizeof(struct tun_flow_entry), 0, 0,
>>                                             NULL);
>>         if (!tun->flow_cache)
>>                 return -ENOMEM;
>> ...
>> }
>>
>>
>> I have no idea why we would need a kmem_cache per tun_struct,
>> and why we even need a kmem_cache.
> Normally flow malloc/free should be good enough.
> It might make sense to use private kmem_cache if doing hlist_nulls.
>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Should be at least a global cache, I thought I can get some speed-up by
using kmem_cache.

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21  3:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-20 23:16 TUN problems (regression?) Paul Moore
2012-12-20 23:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-20 23:50   ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-21  3:32     ` Jason Wang [this message]
2012-12-21  3:39       ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-21  4:26         ` Jason Wang
2012-12-28  0:41           ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-28  5:43             ` Jason Wang
2012-12-28  6:25               ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-01-04  5:04                 ` Jason Wang
2012-12-21 21:15       ` David Miller
2012-12-21 16:27   ` Paul Moore
2012-12-21 17:17     ` [PATCH] tuntap: dont use a private kmem_cache Eric Dumazet

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