[Devel] Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26 2/6][NETNS][SOCK]: Introduce per-net inuse counters.

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <dada1 at cosmosbay.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:21:02 +0100

> Given that :
> 
> 1) pcounter should really go away from kernel, since Andrew disagree 
> with the implementation.
> 
> 2) the need to enumerate all protocols in your enum, it seems ... ugly :)
> 
> 3) alloc_percpu(struct net_prot_inuse) per net is nice because we dont 
> waste memory (if we had to use percpu_counters for each proto for example)
> 
> I suggest to :
> 
> 1) not use pcounter anymore
> 
> 2) change 'inuse' field to 'inuse_idx' or 'prot_num' that is 
> automatically allocated at proto_register time, instead statically at 
> compile time.
> 
> Just provide a big enough NET_INUSE_NR (might depend on IPV6 present or 
> not, static or module) to take into account all possible protocols.
> 
> struct net_prot_inuse {
> 	int val[NET_INUSE_NR];
> };

I agree mostly, and I'll thus hold off on these patches
until the details are hashed out.