netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] cgroup: net_cls: Rework update socket logic

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:07:34 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/5] cgroup: net_cls: Rework update socket logic

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 04:16:59PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
> 
> The cgroup logic part of net_cls is very similar as the one in
> net_prio. Let's stream line the net_cls logic with the net_prio one.
> 
> The net_prio update logic was changed by following commit (note there
> were some changes necessary later on)
> 
> commit 406a3c638ce8b17d9704052c07955490f732c2b8
> Author: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> Date:   Fri Jul 20 10:39:25 2012 +0000
> 
>     net: netprio_cgroup: rework update socket logic
> 
>     Instead of updating the sk_cgrp_prioidx struct field on every send
>     this only updates the field when a task is moved via cgroup
>     infrastructure.
> 
>     This allows sockets that may be used by a kernel worker thread
>     to be managed. For example in the iscsi case today a user can
>     put iscsid in a netprio cgroup and control traffic will be sent
>     with the correct sk_cgrp_prioidx value set but as soon as data
>     is sent the kernel worker thread isssues a send and sk_cgrp_prioidx
>     is updated with the kernel worker threads value which is the
>     default case.
> 
>     It seems more correct to only update the field when the user
>     explicitly sets it via control group infrastructure. This allows
>     the users to manage sockets that may be used with other threads.
> 
> Since classid is now updated when the task is moved between the
> cgroups, we don't have to call sock_update_classid() from various
> places to ensure we always using the latest classid value.
> 
> [v2: Use iterate_fd() instead of open coding]
> 
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
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