Re: git: eb93b99d6986 - main - in_pcb: delay crfree() down into UMA dtor

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 10:47:42AM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote:
K> > My radical opinion is that per-VNET pcb zones should just be eliminated.
K> > The only thing they serve is imposing maxsockets limit separately for
K> > each VNET. But we already have the maxsocket limit on the socket zone,
K> > which is _global_!
K> >
K> > Anybody to explain me the sense of the per-VNET per-pcb zone limit
K> > set to the same maxsockets value? You can't create a pcb without a
K> > socket, which is guaranteed by the in_pcballoc() prototype. Of course
K> > I understand that pcbs may outlive the socket. But those pcbs that
K> > outlive a socket, are eventually garbage collected as their lifetime
K> > is finite. Anyway jail/VNET was never declared as a resource management
K> > framework anyway!
K> >
K> 
K> rctl(8) does appear to support per-jail resource limits, but I’m not sure how complete or functional that is.

The manual doesn't say anything about network resources. The sources
of in_pcballoc() neither suggest that any per-something resource management
is done that can prevent allocation.

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Gleb Smirnoff