Re: net_ns cleanup / RCU overhead

[Julian Anastasov]

	Hello,

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Simon Kirby wrote:

> I noticed that [kworker/u16:0]'s stack is often:
> 
> [<ffffffff810942a6>] wait_rcu_gp+0x46/0x50
> [<ffffffff8109607e>] synchronize_sched+0x2e/0x50
> [<ffffffffa00385ac>] nf_nat_net_exit+0x2c/0x50 [nf_nat]

	I guess the problem is in nf_nat_net_exit,
may be other nf exit handlers too. pernet-exit handlers
should avoid synchronize_rcu and rcu_barrier.
A RCU callback and rcu_barrier in module-exit is the way
to go. cleanup_net includes rcu_barrier, so pernet-exit
does not need such calls.

> [<ffffffff81720339>] ops_exit_list.isra.4+0x39/0x60
> [<ffffffff817209e0>] cleanup_net+0xf0/0x1a0
> [<ffffffff81062997>] process_one_work+0x157/0x440
> [<ffffffff81063303>] worker_thread+0x63/0x520
> [<ffffffff81068b96>] kthread+0xd6/0xf0
> [<ffffffff818d412c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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