From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cedric Le Goater Subject: net namespace plans for 2.6.25 (was Re: Pid namespaces problems) Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:42:25 +0100 Message-ID: <47331241.2090501@fr.ibm.com> References: <472AE42F.5000602@openvz.org> <47301A14.9040304@openvz.org> <4731772D.3060806@fr.ibm.com> <47317EA7.6030500@free.fr> <4731E3DE.6000501@openvz.org> <4731F4BC.4000203@fr.ibm.com> <4732EA8E.7080400@sw.ru> <47330F1F.4080806@fr.ibm.com> <47331122.3000304@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47331122.3000304-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Denis V. Lunev" , Linux Containers , "Denis V. Lunev" , Benjamin Thery List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> Denis V. Lunev wrote: >>> Daniel Lezcano wrote: >>> >>>> * the first one is the locking of the network namespace list by >>>> rtnl_lock, so from the timer callback we can not browse the network >>>> namespace list to check the age of the routes. It is a problem I would >>>> like to talk with Denis if he has time >>> From my point of view, the situation is clear. The timer should be >>> per/namespace. The situation is completely different as one in IPv4. >> We thought to make a timer per namespace for ipv6, but we are a little >> afraid for the performances when there will be a lot of containers. >> Anyway, we can do a timer per namespace and optimize that later. I will >> cook a new patch to take into account that for the next week. > > I propose to start a new mailing thread for net namespaces discussions > or at least change this one's subject ;) done. C.