From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>,
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:21:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFE5A6C.2030301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r5s1bn3f.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk>
Benny Amorsen a écrit :
> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> writes:
>
>> Then maybe network devices aren't the right layering model. At some
>> point the paradigm has to be re-examined.
>
> I'm not quite sure where this becomes a problem. We have 1185 network
> interfaces (VLAN's) on one box. Boot time is a problem, but other than
> that it works ok. If something like this would help speed up booting,
> that would be very nice.
>
It would be very nice if you tell us why booting is very long,
ie what is done and how much time it takes.
It's clear that ~1000 vlans is quite reasonable :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-14 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 5:01 [net-next-2.6 PATCH] net: fast consecutive name allocation Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 5:20 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 6:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-13 6:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 7:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-13 9:51 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 22:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 22:40 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 22:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-13 23:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13 23:52 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 2:59 ` David Miller
2009-11-14 6:24 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 22:36 ` Mark Smith
2009-11-15 1:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-15 1:49 ` Mark Smith
2009-11-15 1:55 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-11-15 7:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-15 16:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2009-11-14 7:08 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-11-14 7:21 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-11-14 16:16 ` Ben Greear
2009-11-13 9:55 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-13 16:40 ` Ben Greear
2009-11-14 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-14 0:14 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-14 0:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
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