netdev - Re: RFC Hanging clean-up of a namespace

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:40:38 +0100
From:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, equinox@...c24.net,
	hans.schillstrom@...csson.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC Hanging clean-up of a namespace

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:24:13PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This thread is a fascinating disconnect from reality all of the way
> around.
> 
> - inet_twsk_purge already implements throwing out of timewait sockets
>   when a network namespaces is being cleaned up.  So the RFC is nonsense.

Indeed it does. Thanks for pointing that out, I should've tested that
first thing... I'm sorry, I'll try better next time.

Hans, I guess if you experienced delays on netns closing, they must have
a different source? Maybe there's a bug in another place that should be
cleaned up on namespace exit?


-David
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