[PATCH 3/3] C/R: Basic support for network namespaces and devices

[Oren Laadan]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Dan Smith wrote:

> BH> What about:
> 
> BH>     1. Multicast
> BH>     2. Device config info (ipv4_devconf)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> BH> What about addr->ifa_flags and all the other elements like
> BH> prefixlen, scope and label?
> 
> I thought I was covered by calling it "Basic support..." :)
> 
> I've added these to the list of TODOs and will cook those up once the
> basic bits are in.
> 
> >> +	if ((ret >= 0) && (ret != h->inet4_addrs)) {
> >> +		ret = -EBUSY;
> >> +		ckpt_err(ctx, ret,
> >> +			 "Addresses on interface %s changed\n", dev->name);
> >> +		goto out;
> >> +	}
> 
> BH> This isn't guaranteed to catch every change to the address list,
> BH> just that the number of addresses is the same, is there no way to
> BH> hold a lock the whole time?
> 
> Yeah, there probably is.  I'll take a look.

Qouting from your reply to my email:

> OL> Is there a reason not to collect all addresses into one buffer
> OL> (can there be more than a page worth of them ?) and write in one
> OL> go ?
>
> I don't really see anywhere that the list is bounded.  I'd say that in
> most cases each interface will only have one address anyway.

So collecting them in one buffer (if one page isn't enough then realloc
and retry) would solve this too.

Oren