Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757707Ab0BCTyU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:54:20 -0500 Received: from dallas.jonmasters.org ([72.29.103.172]:57120 "EHLO dallas.jonmasters.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757472Ab0BCTyR (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:54:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: per netns nf_conntrack_cachep From: Jon Masters To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Patrick McHardy , Eric Dumazet , linux-kernel , netdev , netfilter-devel , "Paul E. McKenney" In-Reply-To: <20100203195153.GA5576@x200> References: <1265129192.2861.141.camel@tonnant> <4B685756.8010107@trash.net> <1265130426.2861.158.camel@tonnant> <1265134598.2861.191.camel@tonnant> <4B6870AF.6060109@trash.net> <4B6967BC.600@trash.net> <1265222289.2861.290.camel@tonnant> <20100203190948.GA5182@x200> <1265226227.2861.302.camel@tonnant> <20100203195153.GA5576@x200> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: World Organi[sz]ation of Broken Dreams Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:53:58 -0500 Message-Id: <1265226838.2861.307.camel@tonnant> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jonathan@jonmasters.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on dallas.jonmasters.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 29 On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:51 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:43:47PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:09 +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > > > > I also think it is necessary to expose net namespace layout > > > > > > Not necessary. Why? > > > > How am I as a sysadmin supposed to figure out which net namespaces exist > > on my system, and as a developer, supposed to debug these situations? > > We don't expose many relations to userspace, and it's generally fine. I can see slabs via /proc, memory layout, heck I can even expose the kernel page tables if I really want to. I guess that's not too many :) > As a developer you fire a debugger and look at net_namespace_list. Yeah, but being able to cat a nice file is always handy. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/