netdev - Way to Know When cleanup

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Date:   Sun, 2 Jul 2017 00:50:08 -0500
From:   Leon Yang <leon.gh.yang@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Way to Know When cleanup_net() Calls Are Done

Hi,

I am measuring the time cost of parallel creation and destruction of
net namespaces.

As cleanup_net() is invoked from workqueue, the exit of a net
namespace does not mean the cleanup is completed. Therefore I use
ftrace to count the number of net_drop_ns() are called. But I found
that the number of namespaces created does not match with the number
of net_drop_ns() calls even after a long wait.

Can you give some hints on why this is happening? and what would be
the correct way to know when the last cleanup_net() is done?

Thanks,

Leon

*psudo code of my program:

n = 0;
while (1) {
        pid = fork();
        if (pid == 0) {
                unshare(CLONE_NEWNET);
                exit(0);
        } else if (/* run out of PID */) {
                /* wait for all the children */
                /* get total time for n creations+destructions */
                n = 0;
        } else { /* do nothing */ }
        n++;
}