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    "name": "[v2,net-next,0/7] net: speedup netns create/delete time",
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        "From": "Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>",
        "To": "\"David S . Miller\" <davem@davemloft.net>",
        "Cc": "netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,\n\t\"Eric W . Biederman\" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,\n\tEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] net: speedup netns create/delete time",
        "Date": "Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:27:02 -0700",
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    "content": "When rate of netns creation/deletion is high enough,\nwe observe softlockups in cleanup_net() caused by huge list\nof netns and way too many rcu_barrier() calls.\n\nThis patch series does some optimizations in kobject,\nand add batching to tunnels so that netns dismantles are\nless costly.\n\nIPv6 addrlabels also get a per netns list, and tcp_metrics\nalso benefit from batch flushing.\n\nThis gives me one order of magnitude gain.\n(~50 ms -> ~5 ms for one netns create/delete pair)\n\nTested:\n\nfor i in `seq 1 40`\ndo\n (for j in `seq 1 100` ; do  unshare -n /bin/true >/dev/null ; done) &\ndone\nwait ; grep net_namespace /proc/slabinfo\n\nBefore patch series :\n\n$ time ./add_del_unshare.sh\nnet_namespace        116    258   5504    1    2 : tunables    8    4    0 : slabdata    116    258      0\n\nreal\t3m24.910s\nuser\t0m0.747s\nsys\t0m43.162s\n\nAfter :\n$ time ./add_del_unshare.sh\nnet_namespace        135    291   5504    1    2 : tunables    8    4    0 : slabdata    135    291      0\n\nreal\t0m22.117s\nuser\t0m0.728s\nsys\t0m35.328s\n\n\nEric Dumazet (7):\n  kobject: add kobject_uevent_net_broadcast()\n  kobject: copy env blob in one go\n  kobject: factorize skb setup in kobject_uevent_net_broadcast()\n  ipv6: addrlabel: per netns list\n  tcp: batch tcp_net_metrics_exit\n  ipv6: speedup ipv6 tunnels dismantle\n  ipv4: speedup ipv6 tunnels dismantle\n\n include/net/ip_tunnels.h |  3 +-\n include/net/netns/ipv6.h |  5 +++\n lib/kobject_uevent.c     | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------\n net/ipv4/ip_gre.c        | 22 +++++-------\n net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c     | 12 +++++--\n net/ipv4/ip_vti.c        |  7 ++--\n net/ipv4/ipip.c          |  7 ++--\n net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c   | 14 +++++---\n net/ipv6/addrlabel.c     | 81 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------\n net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c       |  8 +++--\n net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c    | 20 ++++++-----\n net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c       | 23 +++++++-----\n net/ipv6/sit.c           |  9 +++--\n 13 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 148 deletions(-)"
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