netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6/addrconf: speedup /proc/net/if

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:03:53 +0200
From:	Mihai Maruseac <mihai.maruseac@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Mihai Maruseac <mmaruseac@...acom.com>,
	Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6/addrconf: speedup /proc/net/if_inet6 filling

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Jan 2012 11:31:35 +0200
> Mihai Maruseac <mihai.maruseac@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> This ensures a linear behaviour when filling /proc/net/if_inet6 thus making
>> ifconfig run really fast on IPv6 only addresses. In fact, with this patch and
>> the IPv4 one sent a while ago, ifconfig will run in linear time regardless of
>> address type.
>>
>> IPv4 related patch: f04565ddf52e401880f8ba51de0dff8ba51c99fd
>>        dev: use name hash for dev_seq_ops
>>        ...
>>
>> Some statistics (running ifconfig > /dev/null on a different setup):
>>
>> iface count / IPv6 no-patch time / IPv6 patched time / IPv4 time
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>       6250  |       0.23 s       |      0.13 s       |  0.11 s
>>      12500  |       0.62 s       |      0.28 s       |  0.22 s
>>      25000  |       2.91 s       |      0.57 s       |  0.46 s
>>      50000  |      11.37 s       |      1.21 s       |  0.94 s
>>     128000  |      86.78 s       |      3.05 s       |  2.54 s
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mihai Maruseac <mmaruseac@...acom.com>
>> Cc: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@...acom.com>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv6/addrconf.c |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>>  1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
>
>
> What about netlink? Also ifconfig is really considered deprecated,
> especially for ipv6 usage.

Yes, ifconfig is deprecated but the /proc/net/if_inet6 file can be
used in a lot of bash scripts and this was what we wanted to optimize.

We tried to look at the netlink sockets used in iproute2 but there
seems to be no way to improve the performance there. We used 3 pair of
eyes for this before giving up.

I'll come back with statistics from ip a s in at most 24 hours, I
cannot test right now.

Thanks,
Mihai
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html