On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 1:20 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.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 ? > Hi Eric and Cong, oh it's a typo. it's net->core.sock_inuse there. Why we should check the net->core.sock_inuse Now show you the code:
cleanup_net will call all of the network namespace exit methods, rcu_barrier, and then remove the _net_ namespace. cleanup_net: list_for_each_entry_reverse(ops, &pernet_list, list) ops_exit_list(ops, &net_exit_list); rcu_barrier(); /* for netlink sock, the ‘deferred_put_nlk_sk’ will be called. But sock_inuse has been released. */ /* Finally it is safe to free my network namespace structure */ list_for_each_entry_safe(net, tmp, &net_exit_list, exit_list) {} Release the netlink sock created in kernel(not hold the _net_ namespace): netlink_release call_rcu(&nlk->rcu, deferred_put_nlk_sk); deferred_put_nlk_sk sk_free(sk); I may add a comment for sock_inuse_add in v6.