netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/5] sock, cgroup: add sock->sk

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:31:26 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, kaber@...sh.net, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
	lizefan@...wei.com, hannes@...xchg.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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	daniel.wagner@...-carit.de, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] sock, cgroup: add sock->sk_cgroup

Hello, David.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 04:25:54PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > In preparation, this patch adds sock->sk_cgroup which points to the
> > associated cgroup.  A sock is associated on creation and stays
> > associated to the same cgroup until freed; unfortunately, this ends up
> > adding another cgroup field to struct sock on top of sk_cgrp_prioidx
> > and sk_classid.  I tried to think of a way to somehow overload the
> > existing fields but couldn't come up with a reasonable one.
> 
> sk->sk_cgrp_prioidx is simply sk->sk_cgroup->id, is it not?

Unfortunately, sk->sk_cgrp_prioidx is an arbitrary value which can be
configured through "net_cls.classid".  :(

> We really need to consolidate this before we stuff even more members
> into the socket for control group support, sorry.

Yeah, it is messy.  I'll see if I can come up with a non-crazy way to
combine the other two fields with ->sk_cgroup.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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