Re: [PATCH] netns: optimize netns cleaning by batching unhash_nsid calls
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2026-01-26 10:46:20
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 10:47 AM Qiliang Yuan [off-list ref] wrote:
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Currently, unhash_nsid() scans the entire net_namespace_list for each netns in a destruction batch during cleanup_net(). This leads to an O(M * N) complexity, where M is the batch size and N is the total number of namespaces in the system. Reduce the complexity to O(N) by introducing an 'is_dying' flag to mark the entire batch of namespaces being destroyed. This allows unhash_nsid() to perform a single-pass traversal over the system's namespaces. In this pass, for each survivor namespace, iterate through its netns_ids and remove any mappings that point to a marked namespace. Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <redacted> Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <redacted> --- include/net/net_namespace.h | 1 + net/core/net_namespace.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h index cb664f6e3558..bd1acc6056ac 100644 --- a/include/net/net_namespace.h +++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ struct net { unsigned int dev_base_seq; /* protected by rtnl_mutex */ u32 ifindex; + bool is_dying; spinlock_t nsid_lock; atomic_t fnhe_genid;diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c index a6e6a964a287..d24e46c034f2 100644 --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c@@ -413,6 +413,8 @@ static __net_init int preinit_net(struct net *net, struct user_namespace *user_n get_random_bytes(&net->hash_mix, sizeof(u32)); net->dev_base_seq = 1; + net->ifindex = 0;
Unrelated change (and not needed)
+ net->is_dying = false;
No need to clear fields, whole net is cleared at alloc time (zalloc)
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net->user_ns = user_ns; idr_init(&net->netns_ids);@@ -624,9 +626,10 @@ void net_ns_get_ownership(const struct net *net, kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_ns_get_ownership); -static void unhash_nsid(struct net *net, struct net *last) +static void unhash_nsid(struct net *last) { struct net *tmp; + /* This function is only called from cleanup_net() work, * and this work is the only process, that may delete * a net from net_namespace_list. So, when the below@@ -636,20 +639,34 @@ static void unhash_nsid(struct net *net, struct net *last) for_each_net(tmp) { int id; - spin_lock(&tmp->nsid_lock); - id = __peernet2id(tmp, net); - if (id >= 0) - idr_remove(&tmp->netns_ids, id); - spin_unlock(&tmp->nsid_lock); - if (id >= 0) - rtnl_net_notifyid(tmp, RTM_DELNSID, id, 0, NULL, - GFP_KERNEL); + for (id = 0; ; id++) { + struct net *peer; + bool dying; + + rcu_read_lock(); + peer = idr_get_next(&tmp->netns_ids, &id); + dying = peer && peer->is_dying; + rcu_read_unlock();
Hopefully the number of entries in netns_ids is small, otherwise this could have O(N*M) complexity.
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+ + if (!peer) + break; + if (!dying) + continue; + + spin_lock(&tmp->nsid_lock); + if (idr_find(&tmp->netns_ids, id) == peer) + idr_remove(&tmp->netns_ids, id); + else + peer = NULL; + spin_unlock(&tmp->nsid_lock); + + if (peer) + rtnl_net_notifyid(tmp, RTM_DELNSID, id, 0, + NULL, GFP_KERNEL); + } if (tmp == last) break; } - spin_lock(&net->nsid_lock); - idr_destroy(&net->netns_ids); - spin_unlock(&net->nsid_lock); } static LLIST_HEAD(cleanup_list);@@ -688,8 +705,15 @@ static void cleanup_net(struct work_struct *work) last = list_last_entry(&net_namespace_list, struct net, list); up_write(&net_rwsem); + llist_for_each_entry(net, net_kill_list, cleanup_list) + net->is_dying = true;
Move this to __put_net(), no need for yet another loop.
+
+ unhash_nsid(last);
+
llist_for_each_entry(net, net_kill_list, cleanup_list) {
- unhash_nsid(net, last);
+ spin_lock(&net->nsid_lock);
+ idr_destroy(&net->netns_ids);
+ spin_unlock(&net->nsid_lock);
list_add_tail(&net->exit_list, &net_exit_list);
}
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