Re: [RFC] net: ipv4 -- Introduce ifa limit per net

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:01:38PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:09:20 +0300
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 02:03:24PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:20:18PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:16:29AM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> > > 
> >> > > Thanks for explanation, Dave! I'll continue on this task tomorrow
> >> > > tryin to implement optimization you proposed.
> >> > 
> >> > OK, here are the results for the preliminary patch with conntrack running
> >> ...
> >> >  net/ipv4/devinet.c |   13 ++++++++++++-
> >> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> > 
> >> > Index: linux-ml.git/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> >> > ===================================================================
> >> > --- linux-ml.git.orig/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> >> > +++ linux-ml.git/net/ipv4/devinet.c
> >> > @@ -403,7 +403,18 @@ no_promotions:
> >> >  	   So that, this order is correct.
> >> >  	 */
> >> 
> >> This patch is wrong, so drop it please. I'll do another.
> > 
> > Here I think is a better variant. The resulst are good
> > enough -- 1 sec for cleanup. Does the patch look sane?
> 
> I'm tempted to say that we should provide these notifier handlers with
> the information they need, explicitly, to handle this case.
> 
> Most intdev notifiers actually want to know the individual addresses
> that get removed, one by one.  That's handled by the existing
> NETDEV_DOWN event and the ifa we pass to that.
> 
> But some, like this netfilter masq case, would be satisfied with a
> single event that tells them the whole inetdev instance is being torn
> down.  Which is the case we care about here.
> 
> We currently don't use NETDEV_UNREGISTER for inetdev notifiers, so
> maybe we could use that.
> 
> And that is consistent with the core netdev notifier that triggers
> this call chain in the first place.
> 
> Roughly, something like this:

I see. Dave, gimme some time to test but I'm sure it'll work.
I don't have some strong opinion here, so your patch looks
pretty fine to me. But maybe people from netdev camp have
some other ideas.

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