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Eric Dumazet says:

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net: speedup netns dismantles

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

In this series, I made network namespace deletions more scalable,
by 4x on the little benchmark described in this cover letter.

- Remove bottleneck on ipv6 addrconf, by replacing a global
  hash table to a per netns one.

- Rework many (struct pernet_operations)->exit() handlers to
  exit_batch() ones. This removes many rtnl acquisitions,
  and gives to cleanup_net() kind of a priority over rtnl
  ownership.

Tested on a host with 24 cpus (48 HT)

Test script:

for nr in {1..10}
do
  (for i in {1..10000}; do unshare -n /bin/bash -c "ifconfig lo up"; done) &
done
wait

for i in {1..10}
do
  sleep 1
  echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  grep net_namespace /proc/slabinfo
done

Before: We can see host struggles to clean the netns, even after there are no new creations.
Memory cost is high, because each netns consumes a good amount of memory.

time ./unshare10.sh
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      82634  82634   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  82634  82634      0
net_namespace      37214  37792   3968    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata  37214  37792    192

real	6m57.766s
user	3m37.277s
sys	40m4.826s

After: We can see the script completes much faster,
the kernel thread doing the cleanup_net() keeps up just fine.
Memory cost is not too big.

time ./unshare10.sh
net_namespace       9945   9945   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata   9945   9945      0
net_namespace       4087   4665   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata   4087   4665    192
net_namespace       4082   4607   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata   4082   4607    192
net_namespace        234    761   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    234    761    192
net_namespace        224    751   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    224    751    192
net_namespace        218    745   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    218    745    192
net_namespace        193    667   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    193    667    172
net_namespace        167    609   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    167    609    152
net_namespace        167    609   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    167    609    152
net_namespace        157    609   4096    1    1 : tunables   24   12    8 : slabdata    157    609    152

real    1m43.876s
user    3m39.728s
sys 7m36.342s
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220208045038.2635826-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parents b2309a71 ee403248
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