netdev - Re: [PATCH][net-2.6.25][NETNS] make netns cleanup to run in a separate workqueue

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Message-ID: <47416DF3.700@sw.ru>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:05:23 +0300
From:	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-2.6.25][NETNS] make netns cleanup to run in a separate
 workqueue

imho panic() is too much.
create_singlethread_workqueue() can fail e.g. due to out of memory...

Thanks,
Kirill

Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Subject: make netns cleanup to run in a separate queue
> From: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
> 
> This patch adds a separate workqueue for cleaning up a network 
> namespace. If we use the keventd workqueue to execute cleanup_net(), 
> there is a problem to unregister devices in IPv6. Indeed the code 
> that cleans up also schedule work in keventd: as long as cleanup_net() 
> hasn't return, dst_gc_task() cannot run and as long as dst_gc_task() has
> not run, there are still some references pending on the net devices and
> cleanup_net() can not unregister and exit the keventd workqueue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
> Acked-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@...nvz.org>
> ---
>  net/core/net_namespace.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: net-2.6.25/net/core/net_namespace.c
> ===================================================================
> --- net-2.6.25.orig/net/core/net_namespace.c
> +++ net-2.6.25/net/core/net_namespace.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ out_undo:
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
>  static struct kmem_cache *net_cachep;
> +static struct workqueue_struct *netns_wq;
>  
>  static struct net *net_alloc(void)
>  {
> @@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ void __put_net(struct net *net)
>  {
>  	/* Cleanup the network namespace in process context */
>  	INIT_WORK(&net->work, cleanup_net);
> -	schedule_work(&net->work);
> +	queue_work(netns_wq, &net->work);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_net);
>  
> @@ -171,7 +172,13 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)
>  	net_cachep = kmem_cache_create("net_namespace", sizeof(struct net),
>  					SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
>  					SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
> +
> +	/* Create workqueue for cleanup */
> +	netns_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("netns");
> +	if (!netns_wq)
> +		panic("Could not create netns workq");

>  #endif
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&net_mutex);
>  	err = setup_net(&init_net);
>  
> 
> 
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