Re: [PATCH net-next v6] rtnetlink: Support fine-grained netdevice bulk deletion

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 1/4/22 1:40 PM, Lahav Schlesinger wrote:
> I tried using dev->unreg_list but it doesn't work e.g. for veth pairs
> where ->dellink() of a veth automatically adds the peer. Therefore if
> @ifindices contains both peers then the first ->dellink() will remove
> the next device from @list_kill. This caused a page fault when
> @list_kill was further iterated on.

make sure you add a selftest for the bulk delete and cover cases with
veth, vlan, vrf, dummy, bridge, ...

> 
> I opted to add a flag to struct net_device as David suggested in order
> to avoid increasing sizeof(struct net_device), but perhaps it's not that
> big of an issue.
> If it's fine then I'll update it.

I was hoping to avoid bloating net_device with 16B that has such a
limited need. In one config I use, net_device is 2048B - a nice size and
an additional 16B makes netdevs much more expensive. A ubuntu config
comes in at 2368, so not really an issue there.

Staring at the existing list_head options close_list seems like a
candidate for a union with bulk_kill_list. If that does not work we can
add a new one.