netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] sock: Move the socket inuse to namespace.

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpXe4b0f6--eeJKhkaK7a0dwSic2nkBAC593AHtCk-uECQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 13:28:43 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] sock: Move the socket inuse to namespace.

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 08:45 -0800, Tonghao Zhang wrote:
>> In some case, we want to know how many sockets are in use in
>> different _net_ namespaces. It's a key resource metric.
>>
>
> ...
>
>> +static void sock_inuse_add(struct net *net, int val)
>> +{
>> +     if (net->core.prot_inuse)
>> +             this_cpu_add(*net->core.sock_inuse, val);
>> +}
>
> This is very confusing.
>
> Why testing net->core.prot_inuse for NULL is needed at all ?
>
> Why not testing net->core.sock_inuse instead ?

I bet that is copy-n-paste error given that sock_inuse_exit_net()
has a similar typo.