Le 16/09/2015 02:59, Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
My primary goal with this patchset and it's follow ups is to cleanup the network routing paths so that we do not look at the output device to derive the network namespace. My plan is to pass the network namespace of the transmitting socket through the output path, to replace code that looks at the output network device today. Once that is done we can have routes with output devices outside of the current network namespace. Which should allow reception and transmission of packets in network namespaces to be as fast as normal packet reception and transmission with early demux disabled, because it will same code path. Once skb_dst(skb)->dev is a little better under control I think it will also be possible to use rcu to cleanup the ancient hack that sets dst->dev to loopback_dev when a network device is removed. The work to get there is a series of code cleanups. I am starting with passing net into the netfilter hooks and into the functions that are called after the netfilter hooks. This removes from netfilter the need to guess which network namespace it is working on. To get there I perform a series of minor prep patches so the big changes at the end are possible to audit without getting lost in the noise. In particular I have a lot of patches computing net into a local variable and then using it through out the function. So this patchset encompases removing dead code, sorting out the _sk functions that were added last time someone pushed a prototype change through the post netfilter functions. Cleaning up individual functions use of the network namespace. Passing net into the netfilter hooks. Passing net into the post netfilter functions. Using state->net in the netfilter code where it is available and trivially usable.
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