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Message-ID: <1362642190.17102.134.camel@hawk.mlab.se>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:43:10 +0100
From: Hans Schillstrom <hans@...illstrom.com>
To: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/12] ipvs: prefer NETDEV_DOWN event to free
cached dsts
Hello
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 23:21 +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Hans Schillstrom wrote:
>
> > Hi Julian
> >
> > On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 10:42 +0200, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > > The real server becomes unreachable on down event,
> > > no need to wait device unregistration. Should help in
> > > releasing dsts early before dst->dev is replaced with lo.
> >
> > Have you test this in a network namespace ?
> > i.e. kill the namespace with heave traffic through it
>
> This should not be a problem. Even without ns exit
> situation, we can have a case where device goes down,
> the output routes will start to fail and we will
> not cache route anymore. It can happen while the
> input device floods us with requests.
I've gone through the unregister code a couple of times now
and in theory it should work.
The test suit have also been running without problem
> > From what I remember this was a tricky area...
> >
> > I have some test cases for this, should I run them ?
>
> If it is easy...
>
> > > Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Signed-off by: Hans Schillstrom <hans@...illstrom.com>
> > > ---
> > > net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 8 +++-----
> > > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > > index c68198b..76fc8f2 100644
> > > --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > > +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> > > @@ -1512,10 +1512,8 @@ __ip_vs_dev_reset(struct ip_vs_dest *dest, struct net_device *dev)
> > > spin_unlock_bh(&dest->dst_lock);
> > >
> > > }
> > > -/*
> > > - * Netdev event receiver
> > > - * Currently only NETDEV_UNREGISTER is handled, i.e. if we hold a reference to
> > > - * a device that is "unregister" it must be released.
> > > +/* Netdev event receiver
> > > + * Currently only NETDEV_DOWN is handled to release refs to cached dsts
> > > */
> > > static int ip_vs_dst_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
> > > void *ptr)
> > > @@ -1527,7 +1525,7 @@ static int ip_vs_dst_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
> > > struct ip_vs_dest *dest;
> > > unsigned int idx;
> > >
> > > - if (event != NETDEV_UNREGISTER || !ipvs)
> > > + if (event != NETDEV_DOWN || !ipvs)
> > > return NOTIFY_DONE;
> > > IP_VS_DBG(3, "%s() dev=%s\n", __func__, dev->name);
> > > EnterFunction(2);
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Hans
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Regargs
Hans
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