From 4e985adaa504c1c1a05c8e013777ea0791a17b4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Graf Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:11:20 +0000 Subject: rtnl: provide link dump consistency info This patch adds a change sequence counter to each net namespace which is bumped whenever a netdevice is added or removed from the list. If such a change occurred while a link dump took place, the dump will have the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set in the first message which has been interrupted and in all subsequent messages of the same dump. Note that links may still be modified or renamed while a dump is taking place but we can guarantee for userspace to receive a complete list of links and not miss any. Testing: I have added 500 VLAN netdevices to make sure the dump is split over multiple messages. Then while continuously dumping links in one process I also continuously deleted and re-added a dummy netdevice in another process. Multiple dumps per seconds have had the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set. I guess we can wait for Johannes patch to hit net-next via the wireless tree. I just wanted to give this some testing right away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/net_namespace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'net/core/net_namespace.c') diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index ea489db1bc23..5bbdbf0d3664 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ static __net_init int setup_net(struct net *net) atomic_set(&net->count, 1); atomic_set(&net->passive, 1); + net->dev_base_seq = 1; #ifdef NETNS_REFCNT_DEBUG atomic_set(&net->use_count, 0); -- cgit v1.2.3