From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Batched netns improvements. Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:06:31 -0500 Message-ID: <1259845591.3766.30.camel@bigi> References: Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Lezcano To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f192.google.com ([209.85.212.192]:47466 "EHLO mail-vw0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754865AbZLCNG2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:06:28 -0500 Received: by vws30 with SMTP id 30so590926vws.33 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:06:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 04:27 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > This series of patches takes my simple 4k network namespace exit test > from about 44s to 1.6s, with a minuscule increase in code side. Nice. I will test these as soon as they make it into net-next (just easier for me given the setup). I should confirm that: The previous patches which are already in net-next from yesterday do improve performance to under 1 minute. Can we call that a several-factor improvement?;-> Are you planning to give some tender loving to the virtual devices as well (gre etc) or is that taken care of now you have a pernet batch exit op? cheers, jamal