netdev - [PATCH] iproute2: build nsid-name cache only for commands that need it

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Message-ID: <20160915082326.GA1635@toys.tundra.dog-lvm.novalocal>
Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:23:26 +0000
From:   Anton Aksola <aakso@....fi>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] iproute2: build nsid-name cache only for commands that need
 it

The calling of netns_map_init() before command parsing introduced
a performance issue with large number of namespaces.

As commands such as add, del and exec do not need to iterate through
/var/run/netns it would be good not no build the cache before executing
these commands.

Example:
unpatched:
time seq 1 1000 | xargs -n 1 ip netns add

real    0m16.832s
user    0m1.350s
sys    0m15.029s

patched:
time seq 1 1000 | xargs -n 1 ip netns add

real    0m3.859s
user    0m0.132s
sys    0m3.205s

Signed-off-by: Anton Aksola <aakso@....fi>
---
 ip/ipnetns.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ip/ipnetns.c b/ip/ipnetns.c
index af87065..4546fe7 100644
--- a/ip/ipnetns.c
+++ b/ip/ipnetns.c
@@ -775,8 +775,6 @@ static int netns_monitor(int argc, char **argv)
 
 int do_netns(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-	netns_map_init();
-
 	if (argc < 1)
 		return netns_list(0, NULL);
 
@@ -784,8 +782,10 @@ int do_netns(int argc, char **argv)
 	    (matches(*argv, "lst") == 0))
 		return netns_list(argc-1, argv+1);
 
-	if ((matches(*argv, "list-id") == 0))
+	if ((matches(*argv, "list-id") == 0)) {
+		netns_map_init();
 		return netns_list_id(argc-1, argv+1);
+	}
 
 	if (matches(*argv, "help") == 0)
 		return usage();
-- 
1.8.3.1