linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] netns: isolate seqnums to use per-netns locks

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Date:   Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:55:52 -0500
From:   ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avagin@...tuozzo.com,
        ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, serge@...lyn.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] netns: isolate seqnums to use per-netns locks

Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com> writes:

> Now that it's possible to have a different set of uevents in different
> network namespaces, per-network namespace uevent sequence numbers are
> introduced. This increases performance as locking is now restricted to the
> network namespace affected by the uevent rather than locking
> everything.

Numbers please.  I personally expect that the netlink mc_list issues
will swamp any benefit you get from this.

Eric