netdev - Re: [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:56:16 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
<nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
> Le 27/02/2015 18:28, Cong Wang a écrit :
>> Then call it in do_setlink(). This is not a reason we _have to_
>> allocate it in dumping.
>
> Sure, but that just shows the 'over engineering' side ;-)
> The reason to allocate it in dumping is that you need it in dumping, not
> before ;-)

Why? This relies on rtnetlink to dump the link after creation,
which is not obvious at all. IOW, imagine if rtnetlink didn't do
the dump after new link, what would happen?

You are hiding it too deep, without a valid reason. It sounds
like you want to defer the allocation as late as possible,
but again it makes no sense: 1) we don't allocate too much,
just one id in idr; 2) this loses the code readability and hides
potential bugs.

You are over engineering, not me who wants to make it sane.
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