From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru>,
haveblue@us.ibm.com, herbert@13thfloor.at, sam@vilain.net,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
dev@sw.ru, devel@openvz.org, alexey@sw.ru,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] network namespaces
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:25:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FF2EA6.2030303@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k64i1br2.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> This family of containers are used too for HPC (high performance computing) and
>> for distributed checkpoint/restart. The cluster runs hundred of jobs, spawning
>> them on different hosts inside an application container. Usually the jobs
>> communicates with broadcast and multicast.
>> Application containers does not care of having different MAC address and rely on
>> a layer 3 approach.
>
> Ok I think to understand this we need some precise definitions.
> In the normal case it is an error for a job to communication with a different
> job.
hmm ? What about an MPI application ?
I would expect each MPI task to be run in its container on different nodes
or on the same node. These individual tasks _communicate_ between each
other through the MPI layer (not only TCP btw) to complete a large calculation.
> The basic advantage with a different MAC is that you can found out who the
> intended recipient is sooner in the networking stack and you have truly
> separate network devices. Allowing for a cleaner implementation.
>
> Changing the MAC after migration is likely to be fine.
indeed.
C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-06 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 14:20 [RFC] network namespaces Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 1/9] network namespaces: core and device list Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-16 14:46 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-16 16:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 2/9] network namespaces: IPv4 routing Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 3/9] network namespaces: playing and debugging Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-16 16:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-16 17:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-17 6:28 ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-17 8:30 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 4/9] network namespaces: socket hashes Andrey Savochkin
2006-09-18 15:12 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-20 16:32 ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-09-21 12:34 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 5/9] network namespaces: async socket operations Andrey Savochkin
2006-09-22 15:33 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-23 13:16 ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 6/9] allow proc_dir_entries to have destructor Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 7/9] net_device seq_file Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 8/9] network namespaces: device to pass packets between namespaces Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-15 14:48 ` [PATCH 9/9] network namespaces: playing with pass-through device Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-16 11:53 ` [RFC] network namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2006-08-16 15:12 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-08-16 17:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-17 8:29 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-05 13:34 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-05 14:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-05 15:32 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-05 16:53 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-05 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 14:52 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-06 15:09 ` [Devel] " Kir Kolyshkin
2006-09-06 9:10 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-06 16:56 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-06 17:37 ` [Devel] " Kir Kolyshkin
2006-09-06 18:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 18:58 ` Kir Kolyshkin
2006-09-06 20:53 ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-09-06 23:06 ` Caitlin Bestler
2006-09-06 23:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-07 0:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-07 5:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-07 8:25 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-07 18:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-08 6:02 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-07 16:23 ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-07 17:27 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-07 19:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-08 13:10 ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-09-08 18:11 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-09 7:57 ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-09-10 2:47 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-10 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-10 8:11 ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-09-10 11:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-10 19:19 ` [Devel] " Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-10 7:45 ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-09-10 19:22 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-12 3:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-11 14:40 ` [Devel] " Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-11 14:57 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-09-11 15:04 ` Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-11 15:10 ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-09-12 3:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-12 7:38 ` Dmitry Mishin
2006-09-06 21:44 ` [Devel] " Daniel Lezcano
2006-09-06 17:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-05 15:47 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-05 17:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-09-06 20:25 ` Cedric Le Goater [this message]
2006-09-06 20:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-10-04 9:40 ` Daniel Lezcano
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