linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2, kernel version 3.2.1] net/ipv4/ip

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:29:30 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Štefan Gula <steweg@...t.sk>
Cc:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2, kernel version 3.2.1] net/ipv4/ip_gre: Ethernet
 multipoint GRE over IP

Le mardi 17 janvier 2012 à 09:04 +0100, Štefan Gula a écrit :
> Dňa 17. januára 2012 5:47, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> napísal/a:
> >
> > 2) You call ipgre_tap_bridge_fini() from ipgre_exit_net() and
> > ipgre_init_net(), thats completely bogus if CONFIG_NET_NS=y
> >
> > Just remove the struct kmem_cache *ipgre_tap_bridge_cache
> > and use instead kmalloc(sizeof(...))/kfree(ptr) instead.
> >
> As this is completely the same part of code from net/bridge/br_fdb.c,
> can you give me a hint about how change that as I believe it should be
> changed also there?

Please dont copy code you dont understand :(

bridge code is ok, but not yours, since you destroy the kmem_cache when
a net namespace exits.

Either you fix your code, either you change your memory allocations to
mere kmalloc()/kfree() calls and dont care of a private kmem_cache you
have to create and destroy.

Since you ask a SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, the SLUB allocator will anyway merge
your kmem_cache with the standard one (kmalloc-64 I guess)



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