Re: [PATCH nf-next 3/9] netfilter: conntrack: don't attempt to iterate over empty table

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Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was thinking of the cleanup we do in the netns exit path
> > (in nf_conntrack_cleanup_net_list() ).
> 
> Right, but in that path we still have entries in the table.

Not necessarily, they might have already been removed
(timeout, close).

> > If you don't like this I can move the check here:
> > 
> > i_see_dead_people:
> >     busy = 0;
> >     list_for_each_entry(net, net_exit_list, exit_list) {
> >     // here
> >     if (atomic_read .. > 0)
> >        nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(net, kill_all, ...
> 
> I don't mind about placing this or there, as I said, my question is
> how often we will hit this optimization in a real scenario.
> 
> If you think the answer is often, then this will help.

I think the extra atomic_read in this code does no harm and
saves us the entire scan.  Also, in the exit path, when we hit the
'i_see_dead_people' label we restart the entire loop, so if we
have 200 netns on the list and the last one caused that restart,
we re-iterate needlesly for 199 netns...

> Otherwise, every time we'll go container destruction path, we'll hit
> slow path, ie.  scanning the full table.

Yes, but I see no other choice.
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