linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCH] CLONE_NEWIPC and exit

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Message-ID: <4FFF2040.1010008@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:06:40 -0400
From:	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
To:	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
CC:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] CLONE_NEWIPC and exit_group()

On 07/12/2012 02:54 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Kirill A. Shutemov (kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com):
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:24:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> Am I reading that right?  1000 forks take 33 seconds, with basically
>>> all of it just sitting there asleep?  This look quite terrible - what
>>> causes this?
>>
>> It seems free_nsproxy() + synchronize_rcu() are too heavy to be in
>> exit_group() path. Patch below helps: 8s -> ~0.5s for me.
> 
> And sys time goes down by that much too, or only user time?
> 
> Given that, with user namespaces, it'll soon be possible for users who
> are unprivileged toward the host to be able to create and destroy
> namespaces, if the patch ends up making it easy for a user to consume a
> bunch of system time and not have it accounted at all to himself, then
> I think we should keep it as is.

Indeed.


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Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
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