netdev - Re: network namespace bloat

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Message-ID: <87d25hrv9m.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:18:13 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	roopa <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Dinesh Dutt <ddutt@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Vipin Kumar <vipin@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: network namespace bloat

Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Those large hash tables impact creation speed as large memory
>> allocations require more work from the memory allocators, and they
>> affect reliability of as order > 0 pages are not reliabily available in
>> the kernel.  So from a network namespace perspective I would really like
>> to convert the per network namespace hash tables to hash tables that
>> have a single instance across all network namespaces.
>>
>
> tcp_metric can fallback to vzalloc() after commit 976a702ac9eea ?

True, although vmalloc space is limited on some architectures.

> There is nothing preventing to use a single tcp_metric, a bit like
> global TCP hash table.
>
> We only have to convert the thing...

Thanks for the confirmation, that is what I figured was going on.

> Note : At Google we do not save tcp metrics.
> We have to use it only for FastOpen cookies eventually (For clients)

Interesting.  That makes it doubly desirable to not need to allocate
a per network namespace hash table.

Eric
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